fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.’
“You are going to be the right man for her if she loves you just the way you are and she doesn’t want to change you. She doesn’t have to be responsible for you; she can trust that you are going to be what you claim you are, what you project you are. She can be as honest as possible and project to you what she is. She will not come to you pretending to be something that you later discover she is not. The one who loves you, loves you just the way you are. Because if someone wants to change you, it means you are not what that person wants. Then why is she with you?”
― The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship
― The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship
“The key to successful extramarital sex, therefore, was discretion. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, perhaps the most outspoken woman in polite society, said dryly: “It doesn’t matter what you do in the bedroom, as long as you don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.”43”
― The Last Lion: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
― The Last Lion: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
“It is not Napoleon who prepares himself for the accomplishment of his role, so much as all those round him who prepare him to take on himself the whole responsibility for what is happening and has to happen. There is no step, no crime or petty fraud he commits, which in the mouths of those around him is not at once represented as a great deed.”
― War And Peace
― War And Peace
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.”
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“My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole load of averageness into one compact frame.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
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