“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..”

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”

“Tearless grief bleeds inwardly”

“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.”

“Our first and last love is self-love.”

“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”