“ I love you no longer with the devotion which is paid to a Saint: I prize you no more for the virtues of your soul; I lust for the enjoyment of your person. The Woman reigns in my bosom, and I am become a prey to the wildest of passions. Away with friendship! ‘tis a cold unfeeling word. My bosom burns with love, with unutterable love, and love must be its return. Tremble then, Ambrosio, tremble to succeed in your prayers…. I feel with every heart-throb, that I must enjoy you, or die.
Matthew Lewis, “The Monk” (1796)
(via pocketwatches)
“ one must, said Juliette, take good care to avoid believe it is marriage that renders a girl happy: that, a captive under the hymeneal laws, she has, with much ill-humor to suffer, a very slight measure of joys to expect; instead of which, were she to surrender herself to libertinage, she might always be able to protect herself against her lovers’ moods, or be comforted by their number.
Five Precepts: Do not Take Intoxicant
We need to maintain our wisdom, by taking intoxicants (such as drugs, liquor, and smoking) we lesser our wisdom.
If we consume such things we can accidentally commit unwholesome deeds, breaking more than one precepts.
This is the basically respect for ones mental and physically heath.
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810-1849): Piano Concerto in E minor, Op. 11 - I. Allegro maestoso
Dang Thai Son, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen
22 September 1830. Warszawa Rehearsal of the E minor Concerto (Second concerto) – ‘with complete orchestra, except trumpets and kettle drums’. Present are Elsner and Kurpiński, Soliva, and all the musical élite: Czapek, Kessler, Dobrzyński, Molsdorf, Kaczyński, Sołtyk, Le Doux. In the eyes of Chopin: the Adagio (Romance) cannot count on a particularly great success (without the mutes ‘it would fall flat’), although the ‘Rondo effective, Allegro strong’. In another letter to Woyciechowski he explains why he ‘still stays’: the problem concerns the ‘disturbances that are taking place across the whole of Germany’. Discounting the Rhineland provinces, the Saxons, who already have a different king, Brunswick, Kassel, Darmstadt, etc., it was said that in Vienna, too, a couple of thousand people had begun to revolt because of torture. […] In the Tyrol they have also protested. Italy is simply seething. […] I have not yet applied for a passport, but people are maintaining that I would not receive one, only for Austria and Prussia, and forget about Italy and France’. He therefore intends to set off ‘doubtless within the next few weeks via Cracow to Vienna’, all the more so since there they have ‘once more refreshed their memories’ about him. He observes the progress in the career of Konstancja Gładkowska: on Sunday (26) she was to sing Ninette in La Gazza ladra, under the direction of Kurpiński.
