“One can't love humanity. One can only love people.”

“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.”

“One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.”

“I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning to love, but already I want to abandon everything, everybody but you: only fear and habit prevent me.”

“I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.”

“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”

“We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.”