Prenez de l’amour ce qu’un homme sobre prend de vin ; ne devenez pas un ivrogne. Si votre maîtresse est sincère et fidèle, aimez-la pour cela ; mais … - Alfred de Musset

All men are liars, fickle, chatterers, hypocrites, proud or cowardly, despicable, sensual ; all women faithless, tricky, vain, inquisitive, and depraved. The world is only a bottomless cesspool, where the most shapeless sea-beasts climb and writhe on mountains of slime. But there is in the world a thing holy and sublime — the union of two of these beings, imperfect and frightful as they are. One is often deceived in love, often wounded, often unhappy ; but one loves, and on the brink of the grave one turns to look back and says : I have suffered often, sometimes I have been mistaken, but I have loved. It is I who have lived, and not a spurious being bred of my pride and my sorrow

Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust.

Hakiki hayatta ebedi ve mutlak aşklar aramaya kalkışmak, şehir meydanlarında Venüs kadar güzel kadınlar aramaya yahut da bülbüllerin Beethoven'ın senfonilerini çalmalarını istemeye müsavidir.