"Love is the poetry of the senses." — Honore de Balzac

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk

Source: Ode to a Nightingale (1820)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

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