...And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...
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Zum Autor"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."
"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."
"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."
"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
"The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines."