"Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action."

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Source : Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

Giacomo Casanova

#Sweet Quotes #Fall Quotes #Passion Quotes

“When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.”

Source : Edwin Morgan (1990). “Collected poems”, Carcanet Press
“I'm not romantic at all, ha ha, I need teaching. The closest I ever came was taking a girl out on her birthday and getting her picked up and dropped off at a hotel. The room was all done up, like with flowers and stuff. But that was a struggle for me!”
“If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.”
“I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.”
“Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.”

Source : Richard Saul Wurman, Loring Leifer, David Sume (2001). “Information Anxiety 2”, Que Pub
“Sure. Iâ€™d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. Itâ€™s exciting. Itâ€™s dangerous. Itâ€™s funny. Itâ€™s tough. Itâ€™s heartbreaking.”
“We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.”
“But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.”

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