When youre in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. – Natalie Clifford Barney
I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured. – Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, Tried As By Fire; or, The True and the False,
Italians know about human nature – they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it. – Donna Leon