Une femme qui tolère votre sommeil fait plus que vous aimer, elle vous pardonne d'exister.

(A woman who tolerates your sleeping does more than love you -- she pardons you for existing.)

                                                                              -- Philippe Sollers

[With thanks to Femme Femme Femme for the quote -- image by Cabanel, a Victorian painter famous for his historical and mythological works, which tended to be florid and a bit silly, but whose portraits could be very fine, indeed.]