“Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at ...” — Catherine the Great Quote

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every time I sing, I revisit it.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

My work is intensely personal.