Belles-Lettres

Life devoid of mystery and risk is only half a life. All I really owned was what I was. Learn to listen. You don't learn anything from hearing yourself talk. If I were living with me, would I stick around? Be polite. Love does not give you the license to be for rudeness. What a grand feeling to have a relationship with someone who is loved not only by you but by many. That means you've made a good choice. Don't think in terms of forever. Think of now, and forever will take care of itself. With each relationship you are not only giving but becoming more. There are times when you may want to give up on a relationship, but never give up on relating. After an argument is over, forget it. Feelings have meaning only as they are expressed in action. Perhaps much happiness is lost in the pursuit of it. We must learn that loving others is to want them to be themselves--painful as it may be--with or without you. Laughter is the closest distance between peo...

Life decided to separate us. A loyal adversary who would not let me win a fight I didn't deserve. Only women believe in love. Men don't. I don't see why I shouldn't forgive the man I love. Hating is very wearisome. I will be capable of loving regardless of wether I am loved in return, of giving even when I have nothing, of drying my tears even while I weep. Good fighters use their opponent's energy. Conflicts are for undiscerning souls. A life without cause is a life without effect. Love being stronger than the individual. Yes, but love us made up of choices. I am crying because there is no other way to show what I feel. I am alive. I'm afraid of my fear. Only two things can reveal life great secrets: suffering and love. Our relationship is more alive than ever. I haven't been married for more than 20 years to the same person, because neither she nor I have remained the same that's why I don't expect her to behave as she did we first met. Nor does sh...

I want... a look that does not question us a word that does not pick doubts a touch that does not ask why I feel bad a hug that does not say sorry a kiss that will remind me what's missing I don't want them if all they ever ask is why. I badly need them to tell me how much.

My race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all by themselves with no help from the mind. I could make a point strong enough to stop a womb--or a knife. Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave so they open their legs rather than their hearts where that folded child is tucked. Most demons get hungry at supper time like us.

Eyes mark the shape of the city. The district plays by its own rules at a time like this. She seems to be biting off and chewing the book one line at a time. Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going--people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward. As you wish You don't have to answer. I was just asking myself. If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price. He couldn't suppress that curiosity, no matter how big the price was he had to pay. We take what we can get. Everybody's got their own battlefields. Love ho - love hotel Ni Zemme Le? - What happened? Time is unclear. Defer judgment and accept the situation as it is. I'd better study hard because I'm too ugly for anything else. I don't stand a chance if you compare me to her. Between the last train le...

It's my efforts to find balance. teachers...in many curious forms Say it like you eat it. I wish Giovanni would kiss me. Oh but there are so many reasons why this would be a terrible idea. To begin with, Giovanni is ten years younger than I am, and--like most Italian guys in their 20's--he still lives with her mother. In daylight hours, I refused that thought but at night it would consume me. The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. You don't need to know the final answer right now. How do you negotiate once you have offered everything? I am the planet's most affectionate life form. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation--based love story. You have now reached infatuation's final destination--the complete and merciless devaluation of self. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? ...with even civility between us... Labbiamo rotto (we broke it) I get to thinking a little too muc...