Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. - Anatole France

On devient bon écrivain comme on devient bon menuisier: en rabotant ses phrases.

After the usual politeness, the Citizen Brotteaux resumed the thread of his discourse:
'Those who make a trade out of foretelling the future rarely grow rich. Their attempts to deceive are too easily found out and arouse detestation. And yet it would be necessary to detest them much, much more if they foretold the future correctly. For a man's life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.

Meilės kaltės bus atleistos,
nes tyroj meilėj nėra nieko pikta. Bet jausmingoj
meilėj yra tiek pat neapykantos, egoizmo ir
apmaudo, kiek ir meilės.