One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in read more

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but read more

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as read more

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.