“To meet a beautiful woman is one thing, but to meet your best friend and the most beautiful woman is something entirely apart.”
— Bridgerton: S01E05 - The Duke and I.
“...per quanto ci si creda tranquilli quando si ama, l’amore è sempre nel proprio cuore in equilibrio instabile. Basta un niente per metterlo nella posizione di felicità...”
— Marcel Proust, “Alla ricerca del tempo perduto”.
Shakeaspeare, “Twelfth Night” (1623).
“If musick be the food of Love, play on.” (Act I, Sc.I)
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear.” — John Lennon
“Love letters straight from your heart Keep us so near while apart I'm not alone in the night When I can have all the love you write.
I memorize every line And I kiss the name that you sign And darling, then I read again right from the start Love letters straight from your heart.”
- Etta James "Love Letters" from the album "Blue Gardenia".
Adam Martinakis - Last Kiss (2011). Digital and 3D Sculpting on Aluminium and Paper.
“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.”
— John Grogan, ”Marley and me”.
Discourse on the Passion of Love.
“Beauty is divided in a thousand different ways. The most proper object to sustain it is a woman. When she has intellect, she enlivens it and sets it off marvellously. If a woman wishes to please, and possesses the advantages of beauty or a portion of them at least, she will succeed; and even though men take ever so little heed of it, although she does not strive for it, she will make herself loved. There is an accessible point in their hearts; she will take up her abode there. [..] The pleasure of loving without daring to tell it, has its pains, but it has its joys also. What transport do we not feel in moulding all our actions in view of pleasing the person whom we infinitely esteem! We study each day to find the means of revealing ourselves, and thus employ as much time as if we were holding converse with the one whom we love. The eyes kindle and grow dim at the same moment, and although we do not see plainly that the one who causes this disorder takes heed of it, we still have the satisfaction of feeling all these emotions for a person who deserves them so well. We would gladly have a hundred tongues to make it known; for as we cannot make use of words, we are obliged to confine ourselves to the eloquence of action. [..] In love, silence is of more avail than speech. It is good to be abashed; there is an eloquence in silence that penetrates more deeply than language can. How well a lover persuades his mistress when he is abashed before her, who elsewhere has so much presence of mind! Whatever vivacity we may have, it is well that in certain junctures it should be extinguished. All this takes place without rule or reflection, and when the mind acts, it is without thinking of it beforehand. This happens through necessity. We often adore one that is unconscious of it, and do not fail to preserve an inviolable fidelity, although its object knows nothing of it. But this love must be very refined or very pure.” Blaise Pascal. quotes 18, 34, 47.
Diabetes.. i’m coming for you part two.
Merende ipercaloriche da Pierre Hermé, Ladurée e Maison Pradier.
“Sono quasi pronto per un attacco di gastrite epico”. (Cit. me stesso il 16 agosto)... infatti, a distanza di poco più di due settimane, io e la maiolica del cesso siamo una cosa sola....
“Ci sono abissi che l'amore non può superare, nonostante la forza delle sue ali.”
Honoré de Balzac - La pelle di zigrino