Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.