Elena

“Same-sex contact between men was part of the fabric of everyday life. But to raise a hue and cry about such contact was also a weapon in the arsenal of the slanderer, the fabulist and the blackmailer.”
― Will Tosh, Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare's England

“Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds. Under certain emotional circumstances I can stand the spasms of a rich violin, but the concert piano and all wind instruments bore me in small doses and flay me in larger ones.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein