Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.