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I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth.


Roman Payne


#feminity #girls #life-experience #life-phases #manhood

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.


Roman Payne


#artists #awkwardness #bizarre #clumsiness #good-art

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?


Roman Payne


#carpenter #courage #esteem #genius #happiness

Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.


Roman Payne


#fortune #lizards #payne #roman #sun

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of cloth. I give her my troth for our love is whole; her breath is my wine, her scent is my soul.


Roman Payne


#love #loving #roman-payne #woman #beauty

In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy—opium and other miserable beauties.


Roman Payne


#drunkeness #greatness #heroin #opium #poppies

Whilst the wolflets bayed, A grave was made, And then with the strokes of a silver spade, It was filled to make a mound. And for two cold days and three long nights, The father tended that holy plot; And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grave within the ground.


Roman Payne


#burial #death #father-and-wife #grave #payne

I was glad to be made aware that “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair), is subject to natural law, and can be made fat, by such things as poor diet, and alcohol.


Roman Payne


#au-pair #diet #germans #humor #humour

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?


Roman Payne


#dreams #dying #roman-payne #sleeping #death

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.


Roman Payne


#payne #time #experience






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