لو أدركتُ في شبابي أنّ ذلك الجمال المُعين الذي أحببتُه سيعود يوماً ليغمر قلبي، فيُشعل فيه لهيباً يعذّبني بلا انقطاع، لَأطفأتُ نور عينيّ بكل سرور.

“If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.”Michelangelo