Love itself is what is left over when being “in love” has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That’s why fear should be unknown to us.
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.
There is only one thing worse than losing the one you love, and that is losing them without knowing why. If you are a dog, then your master is like a god to you, and the pain of losing him is greater still.
Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous.
That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal.
The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it’s better not to tell the truth.
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Don’t give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?
Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.