People die of common sense.
It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.
He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.
Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.
Details are always vulgar.
The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.
That's an awful thing, a woman's memory.
My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.
There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me.
I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
To have ruined one’s self over poetry is an honour.
A cold rain began to fall, and the blurred street-lamps looked ghastly in the dripping mist.
We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.
Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
A mask tells us more than a face.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl I have ever met since I met you.