Only love can keep anyone alive.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.