Andreea

“The secret of happiness and the very height of artistic achievement is to be like everybody else, yet to be like no one on earth.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“Everything is of God, he reflected; everything has two meanings, one manifest, one hidden.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ

“Loveless?--was it possible then that a woman should not love? That a young and pretty woman, living in Paris, reading books, applauding actresses for dying of passion on the stage, could live from youth to old age without once feeling her heart touched? He would not believe it
of any one else; why should she be different from all others, though she was his mother?”
― Maupassant (de) Guy, Pierre et Jean

“When he [Christ] says 'Forgive your enemies', it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one's own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis