More from Moliere
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MoliereMoliere One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MoliereMoliere Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MoliereMoliere In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MoliereMoliere It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MoliereMoliere The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MoliereMoliere The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
MoliereMoliere It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MoliereMoliere The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MoliereMoliere Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MoliereMoliere People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MoliereMoliere The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MoliereMoliere Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MoliereMoliere Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MoliereMoliere A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MoliereMoliere New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
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Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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More on intimacy
Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.
Bill JohnsonBill Johnson When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.
Bill BrysonBill Bryson Your arms around me – and for the first time in years, I feel like I am home.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
John BergerJohn Berger Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
Erica JongErica Jong Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo MayRollo May I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
Erica JongErica Jong Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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