André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Marriage
“And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving for the mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.”
Source: The God of the Labyrinth (1970), p. 252
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Sari al-Saqati (772–867) Iraqi sufi
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, p. 43
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
8 November 1943
Variant: If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
“He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.”
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci,
lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 343
“A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
“Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 77
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Context: In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.
Samuel I. Prime (1812–1885) American clergyman, traveler, and writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 468.