But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.