In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between 2 points. 'Time' doesn't pass.

We'll always have Paris.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one’s loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom.

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

She had experienced the pleasures of virgin and prostitute, of slave and queen, albeit more slave than queen.