#Oneself

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."