Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.