Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.