When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...
almost all novels are love stories.
A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.
[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!