"One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe entire world is concentrated in a single being infinitely possessed. Tristan no longer needs the world--because he loves! While Don Juan, always loved, cannot love in return. Hence his anguish and his frenzied course."

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Source : Denis de Rougemont (1963). “Love Declared: Essays on the Myths of Love”

Denis de Rougemont

#World Quotes #Don Juan Quotes #Anguish Quotes

“I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me”
“Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question of such immense and worldwide importance, both from the humane and Christian stand-point?”

Source : "A Memory of Solferino". Book by Henry Dunant, p. 66, 1862.
“I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals”
“A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.”
“From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.”
“I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.”
“In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.”
“You don't have to get high or need drugs to experience the Juggalo freshness. But you do need to get high to experience the whole Phish freshness.”

Source : "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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