Desire projected itself visually: his fancy, not quite yet lulled since morning, imaged the marvels and terrors of the manifold earth.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

He whose preoccupation is with excellence longs fervently to find rest in perfection; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

I have always been an admirer.

I his was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected—in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

If love is the best thing in life, then the best part of love is the kiss.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.