Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

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

I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

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.

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.