economy spoils pleasure

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.