The good and beauty of the soul consists in making oneself similar to God, because God derives from beauty and all that constitutes the essence of true reality. (Plotinus)

What I heard was the melody of the children who played, only that. And then I realized that the desperately heartbreaking thing was not the absence of lolita from my side, but the absence of his voice, from that choir … (Jeremy Irons)

Ipazia
Lolita