
No, not another post about pastry. Today is the birthday of Virgil, Nietzche, Italo Calvino, P.G. Wodehouse, and Maria Puzo (I'm not making this up).
Brothers, love is a teacher, but a hard one to obtain: learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)