try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

Life! Life! Don’t let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only that that can satisfy the artistic and critical temperament

Threads snap. You would lose your way in the labyrinth.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.