#lina

C'était et je voudrais ne pas m'en souvenir c'était au déclin de la beauté... ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#men

How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her. ↗

— Sarah Waters

#love #margaret #selina #death

Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere else,” said Magnus. “Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I’m banned from Peru. I’d forgotten about that. It’s a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #south-carolina #story

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#democracy #inclination #injustice #justice #makes

I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling chefs to dispense with spices in cooking. ↗

— Kevin Sinnott

#culinary #art

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness. ↗

— Paullina Simons

#tatiana-alexander #tatiana-metanova #loneliness

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#am #baby #because #disciplinarian #easy

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#draw #grows #inclination #limit #look

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#boring #considered #despair #everything #inclination

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#disorder #evil #homosexual #inclination #intrinsic