The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

Love is a kind of creative act.

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu

I loved you: love perhaps has not yet faded entirely from my soul.

-- Alexander Pushkin

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

-- Kahlil Gibran