“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”

“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”

“Kindness is true wisdomnot cleverness.”

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”

“Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.”

“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just...”

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and inte...”

“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence ...”