The melancholia of everything completed!

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.