"Women are angels, wooing:Things won are done;..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Women are angels, wooing:Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
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More on Desire
“There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives.”
“Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.”
“Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]”
More on Love
“There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.”
“I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial and error. It was scary and exciting at first you don't know what to expect. But once you look into your child's eyes, you forget about that.”
“He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.”