Posted by: Francesca Nacca
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Desire)
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Send
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
The ideal husband does not exist. The ideal husband remains single.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.
Man has enough memory to remember hundreds of anecdotes, but not enough to remember who told them.
There is no use in telling someone what they don't feel as their own and that they can't understand.
Any place you love is the world to you, but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent.