José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorHe who cannot do what he wants must want what he can.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorFalling in love is to feel enchanted by something, and something can only enchant if it is or seems to be perfection.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorThe men most capable of thinking about love are those who have experienced it the least; and those who have experienced it are often incapable of meditating on it.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorIt is important to emphasize the role that facial features and gestures such as a kiss play in love. They reveal the authentic being of the person we love.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorIn the morphology of the female being, perhaps there are no figures more strange than those of Judith and Salome, the two women who go with two heads each: their own and the severed one.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorLove, more than an elemental power, seems like a literary genre. Because love, more than an instinct, is a creation, and even as a creation, nothing primitive in man.
Ovid
View AuthorEvery lover is a soldier at war.
Ovid
View AuthorWomen may deny it or accept it, but what they always want is for us to ask for it.
Ovid
View AuthorEnvy, the most mean-spirited of vices, slithers on the ground like a snake.
Ovid
View AuthorPoor me! Love cannot be cured with herbs.
Ovid
View AuthorIn other people's fields, the harvest is always more abundant.
Marcel Pagnol
View AuthorIf you can't cheat with your friends, it's not worth playing cards.