Do they care about Literature and Art? That is the most important when you come to think of it. Literature and Art. Most important.
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
