... the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves...

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'...

... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety, ...

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2)

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.