“It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.”

“As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

“The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid others might pick them up.”

“Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible”