“It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.” KindPastPeaceNumbersMorningDistancePainfulGet UpIntensityRecalls Author:Leonard Cohen
“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.” FirstsHeartSoulFeelingsLightTogetherPastNamesSpeakDutyReflectionConscienceFirst TimeBreathsPassionateFacultyIntensityPassionate Love Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.” Has BeensDifferentSelfPastHabitImpressionEnthusiasmFormerInstantIntensityFadesSensibilityVividStimulusMomentaryDrunkardsInsignificanceTimes Past Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book) Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)