Preslava

“The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth -- all save this -- come and go with us through life; again and again in riper years we experience, under a new stimulus, what we thought had been finally left behind, the authentic impulse to action, the renewal of power and its concentration on a new object; again and again a new truth is revealed to us in whose light all our previous knowledge must be rearranged.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies

“For with the complete disappearance of my boredom, to which I had not dared to give a name, I had changed for the better.”
― Françoise Sagann

“It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence