“I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.”
Source: Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art
“She did not understand the beauty he found in her, through touch upon her living secret body, almost the ecstasy of beauty. For passion alone is awake to it. And when passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable; warm, live beauty of contact, so much deeper than the beauty of vision.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today. But—is there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands "interest"?”
Source: What is called thinking?
“Passion can’t sustain itself forever.”
Source: The Folklore of Our Times
“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need
for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“We may only ever have one great, passionate love, but sometimes it’s best to leave that kind of love in the past. A love like that can’t last forever.”
Source: The Way We Fall
“It may seem a little obvious that Megan would feel that in her music or that I would feel it in woodworking, but there are so many domestic places, so many little ways that you can make your existence holy in how you choose to treat your loved ones and people in your community.”
Source: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
“A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Anything beautiful now was just a thought yesterday.”
“An artist is an artist before they have ever produced a single thing. The production of something is not what makes a body an artist. It is the soul that makes an artist, the core of the psyche that fills the person, the creative fire inside a person that make them an artist. And if that person has the soul of an artist, that is they have the burning as each and every individual does, then they are an artist, they are entitled to the title artist, we are all entitled to the title artist before we have produced one single thing”
Source: The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories on the Cycles of Creativity