“A kiss may ruin a human life”

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”

“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.”

“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.”

“I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“I suppose because we have no ruins and no curiosities,” said Virginia satirically.”