“The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.” LoveShouldChildrenCountryUniverseCitiesCreaturesReasoningNativeOther CountriesOur LoveChild Of GodTotality Book:The Simone Weil Reader Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“If I freely may discover What should please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of court than city; A little proud, but full of pity; Light and humorous in her toying, Oft building hopes, and soon destroying, Long, but sweet in the enjoying; Neither too easy nor to hard; All extremes I would have barr'd.” IfsLoveShouldMayLittlesLongHardLightEasyEnjoyCitiesBuildingSweetProudLoversPleaseHumorousFairsCourtWittyExtremesPityDestroyingPlease MeMy Lover Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.” LoveCitiesCasesObjectsLoversUltimateWanderSettlingGlancesMetropolitan Book:Pierre or The Ambiguities Source: Pierre or The Ambiguities