The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.