Quote of the Day

Valentine's Day is less than three weeks away... might as well get the love fest started early!

August 9, 1846

Croisset, France

(to Louise Colet)

I embrace you, I kiss you. I feel wild. Were you here, I'd bite you; I long to do so - I, whom, women jeer at for my coldness- I, charitably supposed to be incapable of sex, so little have I indulged in it.

Yet, I feel within me now the appetites of wild beasts, the instincts of a love that is carnivorous, capable of tearing flesh to pieces. Is this love?

Perhaps in my case it's the heart that is impotent.

Gustave Flaubert. Love Letters of Great Men, Vol 1.  by John C. Kirkland