Closet Quote by Erik Pevernagie

“There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“But now, all of a sudden, there appeared before me the absurd, loathsomely spiderish notion of debauchery, which, without love, crudely and shamelessly begins…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against…

— Herman Melville

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.”

— Marlena De Blasi

“When we are deeply passionate about something, the obstacles or challenges are diminished by sheer will and desire.”

— Susan C. Young

“Let me let you in on a little secret, a profound truth passed down from the drunken poets and the great gamblers who built…

— Lokesh Tuli

“That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands that we risk. Our…

— Fredrik Backman

“We were in the throes of infatuation, soft-minded and easily persuaded of our rightness for each other by sexual thrill.”

— heather harpham

“Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring ---”

— Virginia Woolf

“Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those other pleasures…

— Marcel Proust

“Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our thinking and…

— Erik Pevernagie