“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — 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
“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
“May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — 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
“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
“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
“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
