“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Oliver liked to keep the windows and shutters wide open in the afternoon, with just the swelling sheer curtains between us and… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Fall in love with the energy of the mornings trace your fingers along the lull of the afternoons take the spirit of… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“A woman is at heart – a wild creature. But the creature itself … that depends on you. (His wild rabbit – your wild horse)” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Dreams, always dreams! and the more ambitious and delicate is the soul, the more its dreams bear it away from possibility. Each… — Aleister Crowley Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The romantic is always intelligent, and I only meant to observe that although we have had foolish romantics, they don't count.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed… — Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto Copy Share Image
“[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!” — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
“… the conjunction of Beethoven’s last symphonic masterpiece with crucial works or events in the lives of so many other outstanding artists… — Harvey Sachs Copy Share Image
Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
“You have attempted to tinge detection with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an… — Stephen Fry - introductions Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life.… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
