I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him. - Ford Madox Ford

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

You can't kill a minuet de la coeur. You may shut up the music book... but surely the minuet — the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars, even as our minuet of the Hessian bathing places must be stepping itself still.

He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!