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In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere. — Paul-Ludwig Landsberg

What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world. — Helen Humphreys

You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what's happening on another planet, but not what's going on inside the person next to you. — Graham Spaid

The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit. — Jane Austen

and her waist, and she didn't flinch, didn't shrink away from — Chris Morphew

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. — John Locke