To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>