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Knowledge would be fatal. It is uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful

I wish I could love, but I seem to have lost the passion, and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her

Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When they took lovers, it was merely to have some one with whom they could have scenes.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic