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Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Last Update: 2 March 2021
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