“There are lovers content with longing.I’m not one of them.”
“Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.”
“Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.”
“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”
“The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.”