Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

I find no intellect comparable to my own

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.