The most interesting plants grow in the shade.
I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious – your heart, your soul. Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour and cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know. Believe me, nothing on earth is given without labour, even love, the most beautiful and natural of feelings. <...> But the more difficult the labour and hardship, the higher the reward.
Count Leo Tolstoi to Valeria Arseneva, his fiance. November 2, 1856
— Is he handsome?
— He certainly thinks so.
— Is he vain?
— Your Majesty, he's French.
I travel for you around the world
Collecting moment, o how absurd.
To bring you beauty, to bring you joy.
I wish I'd be a little boy.
human device for mastering nature without disturbing its power or destroying its beauty