“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”

“In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.”

“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”