

“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
― The Witch of Portobello
― The Witch of Portobello

“Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence”
― The Witch of Portobello
― The Witch of Portobello

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
― The Witch of Portobello
― The Witch of Portobello

“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”
― On Love
― On Love

“Two roads diverget in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference”
― L'Achimiste / La Sorcière de Portobello / Le Zahir
― L'Achimiste / La Sorcière de Portobello / Le Zahir
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