Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither?

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.