Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

Removing his helmet, Edward knelt by the stream called Swillgate, a name that effectively quenched any desire to drink from its depths.

She opened her mouth, clamped it shut again. This was new, this sudden favor shown Gloucester, had been brought back with him from Burgundy like some malevolent foreign pox.

Money is God’s seed and Christians should learn how to properly sew it.

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I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

There is no greater glory than to die for love.

I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.