“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”

“You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.”

“I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.”

“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood”

“I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning. ”

“Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin.”

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”