“The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“When you hold a flower in your hand for a long time, 'till all its fragrance has gone, and you drop it because it no longer smells sweetly — you are not to blame — it is natural you should wish to have something fresh and fragrant, it is the flower's fault because it could not keep its scent long en…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Something was and wasn’t there between us, something went on and went away.”— Wisława Szymborska, newyorker.com