“God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.”
Marguerite de Navarre book Heptaméron
Fourth Day, Novel XXXVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehen…" by William Shakespeare?
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"gentelmen".
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Honoré de Balzac book Physiology of Marriage
Il est plus facile d'être amant que mari, par la raison qu'il est plus difficile d'avoir de l'esprit tous les jours que de dire de jolies choses de temps en temps.
Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined, aphorism LXIX.
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“Tell me if the lovers are losers… tell me if any get more than the lovers.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
"Cool Tombs" (1918)
“Polyamory — that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time.”
John Perry Barlow (1947–2018) American poet and essayist
Planet JH Weekly interview (2005)
Context: Polyamory — that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time. And actually I'm less that way than I used to be, but I was trying to make people understand, that at least for some folks, this was a fairly natural state. And instead of skulking around about it that we'd all do better to avoid the deceit and be honest.