Glory and the Lightning | 
“Everything glowed and sparkled voluptuously. The windows were open to the evening air and wind and through them came the tinkling soliloquies of fountains and the rustling murmur of the sea.”
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“Everything glowed and sparkled voluptuously. The windows were open to the evening air and wind and through them came the tinkling soliloquies of fountains and the rustling murmur of the sea.”
“From the earth there rose a passionate scent of jasmine and roses and cooling stone and water, and the fountains threw up frail arms touched with gold and lilac.”
Reading to my special boy on his gotcha day!
“The minds of men should be free to roam as they willed, and should be restrained only when they impinged on the minds of others and caused destruction and oppression. In short, liberty was the law of flourishing life and when it was abdicated by evil men it induced death.”
“There are men who prefer a woman of fire to a complaisant woman in their arms. Who would not prefer to subdue a spirited horse rather than a donkey, or a listless mare?”
“Nothing remains the same. All things, all conditions, change, including the stars in their passage, and the winds in the air. Reality, then, is ephemeral, and what is real, today, is false tomorrow or even in the next moment.”
“Men pursued the gods, but women pursued life, and perhaps they were the same. But it was a woman‘s womb which produced both gods and men, and therein lay women‘s power and their wisdom.”
“As Aristotle said, “That nation which will not learn from the past is doomed to repeat it.” We have seen that over and over in history, and again are about to repeat the doom.”