To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god.

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

Love ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.

The more a man is given to sentiment ,the more likely is he to be wordy and to speak well.

I reason everything out, and usually analyze my tastes too well to succumb to them blindly. And that's my chief defect, the real cause of my weakness. But this woman has taken possession of me in spite of myself, in spite of my fear and my knowledge of her; and she possesses me as if she had plucked out, one after the other, my every last aspiration.