The self is the modern substitute for the soul

- Allan Bloom

Humans keep repeating the same patterns but with different images

Crow and Spider by: Ohara Koson

ولو ما حبيت غير أول دقيقة ونص

music mediates between silence and language.

Sara Maitland, A Book of Silence

There is the aftermath of seriously good sex, when you are with the other person without demand or need. In fact, there is a silence around sex, which is quite other than the silence of shame. There is something about sexual passion that language cannot comprehend or represent and at its best there is no reason to try.

Love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree

- S.T. Coleridge

Words [like Creativity] that were meant to describe and encourage Beethoven and Goethe are now applied to every schoolchild.

- Allan Bloom

Mentioning tango...

No mistakes in the tango, darling, not like life. It’s simple. That’s what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, get all tangled up, just tango on.