Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
William Shakespeare
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Spanish Proverb
I regard no man [...]
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
If you want [...]
If music be the food of love, play on; /Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die (Shakespeare)
There is only one better thing than music – live music. (Jacek Bukowski)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)
Hell is full of musical amateurs: [...]
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. Sholem Asch, The Nazarene
A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgement. Montaigne, Essays
Women and elephants never forget. Dorothy Parker, Ballads of Unfortunate Animals
If you wish to forget anything on the [...]
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. (Karl Kraus)
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. (Albert Einstein)
Let us with caution indulge the supposition [...]