“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”
“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.”
“What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.”
“Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.”
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
“The mistake the two of us made,’ I said, ‘was that we skimped the foreplay. I’m not blaming you, it was as much my fault as yours, but it was a fault nonetheless.”