“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”

“What then? Joy-jaunts, impassioned flings, Love and its ecstasy, Will always have been great things, great things to me!”

“The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.”

“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”

“All things merge in one another - good into evil, generosity into justice, religion into politics...”

“Love is an utterly bygone, sorry, worn-out, miserable thing with me- for him or anyone else.”