Roman Payne

“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”

— Roman Payne

“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.”

— Roman Payne

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

“We made love outdoors Without a roof, I like most, Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy,…

— Roman Payne

“The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before…

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“Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that…

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“I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are…

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“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to…

— Roman Payne

“In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency…

— Roman Payne

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle…

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“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they…

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“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the…

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“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they…

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“As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, we must learn…

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“I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not…

— Roman Payne

“Those things: Mystery, Fate, and Enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon as we get close to them.…

— Roman Payne

“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

“POEM FOR SOUKAÏNA” **** To tell of my new Moroccan Love, Ô, I court her everyday. But just as a pearl in…

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“The hour of spring was dark at last, sensuous memories of sunlight past, I stood alone in garden bowers and asked the…

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“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but…

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“It’s not that we have to leave this life one day, it's how many things we have to leave all at once:…

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“I thought of the fifteen years I lived 'sans papiers' in France and how Paris had belonged to me. I was like…

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“Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical…

— Roman Payne

“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to…

— Roman Payne

“From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.”

— Roman Payne

“The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.”

— Roman Payne

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

“Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.”

— Roman Payne

“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,…

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“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s…

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“When a Wanderess has been caged, Or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, and lives most heroic, When…

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“Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and…

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“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except…

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“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

“SAUL: 'We made love outdoors, my favorite place to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath…

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“Ah, youth! It was a beautiful night... The moon was out of orbit. The stars were awry. But everything else was exactly…

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“A glorious death would be in my final breath to take before I die, to hear one final time on my belovèd's…

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“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing…

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“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress.”

— Roman Payne

“In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n’y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir’ (Duty).…

— Roman Payne