To me it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step for example than to see the face of a monster which usually looks ridiculous and where you know that the blood is ketchup.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
The most virtuous women have something within them something that is never...
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises...
A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower...
There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children...
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It’s curative....
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
