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

"It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."

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

"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."

"There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him."

"The only horrible thing in the world is ennui."