“To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.”
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.