Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
almost all novels are love stories.
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.