A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not lov... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."

"Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben."

"She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."

"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid"

"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."