Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love.

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.