George

“The most beautiful lives, to my mind,are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle, and without eccentricity.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.”
― Marcel Proust

“The oddities of charming people exasperate us, but there are few if any charming people who are not, at the same time, odd.”
― Marcel Proust