“My own opinion is that [love] is felt most completely in marriage, or some comparable attachment of long duration. Love takes time. What are called “love affairs” may afford a wide, and in retrospect, illuminating variety of emotions; not only fierce satisfactions and swooning delights, but the horrors of jealousy and the desperation of parting attend them; the hangover from one of these emotional riots may be long and dreadful. But rarely have the pleasures of love an opportunity to manifest themselves in such riots of passion. Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.”
Robertson Davies
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“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.”
Robertson Davies
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“Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.”
Robertson Davies
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“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”
Robertson Davies
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.”
Robertson Davies
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“A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.”
Robertson Davies
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.”
Robertson Davies
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“If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.”
Robertson Davies
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“Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.”
Robertson Davies
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Genius
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“The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
Robertson Davies
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
