#classics

"A great nose may be an indexOf a great soul"

"Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?"

"…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."

"I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me."

"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave."

"And so it goes..."

"Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships."

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

"O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)"

"nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose"

"Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born."

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."

"I live not in myself, but I becomePortion of that around me: and to meHigh mountains are a feeling, but the humof human cities torture."

"Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought"

"All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time."