Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.