“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“All that I desire in life are three... A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“In my errant life, I roamed to learn the secrets of women and men, of gods and dreams.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal. Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we have to leave this life one day, it's how many things we have to leave all at once:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“As for girls, they must risk everything for freedom, and give everything for passion... loving everything that their hearts and their bodies… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“In my errant life I roamed to learn the secrets of women and men, of gods and dreams. I lived in wealth… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The hour of spring was dark at last, sensuous memories of sunlight past, I stood alone in garden bowers and asked the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, they must learn… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I met Anne in the autumn... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness. For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“In my errant life I roamed To learn the secrets of women and men, Of gods and dreams. I've known all the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Without knowing why or how, I found myself in love with this strange Wanderess. Maybe I was just in love with the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, they must learn bravery and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The green-eyed angel came in less than a half hour and fell docile as a lamb into my arms. We kissed and caressed, I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“When a Wanderess has been caged, Or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, and lives most heroic, When she smiles… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“We were hooked when we woke. We had arms for each other. But I yearned to resume My dreams of another.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“We made love outdoors Without a roof, I like most, Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
![“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic…” quote by Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ee/roman-payne-1959_advice-for-writers_i-ran-across-an-excerpt-today-in-english_2690369.jpg)
