"I wish I could love as you love."
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions."
"What is past is prologue."
"I suppose I should be flattered."
"There ought to be some compensation for that."
"I love beautiful things that talk of beauty and romance."
"I have always been my own master; had at least always been so till I met you."
"I don't regret my past. I am not ashamed of it."
"What are you talking about? I haven't got a conscience."
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
Power
"I am dying of ennui."
Happiness
"Self-control is the strength. When you can command yourself, you command the world."
Strength
"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us."
"I have never given myself away, even in the midst of temptation."
Strength
"The greatest love is a love that makes you a better person, yet I'm not sure such a thing exists."
Love
"The only way to atone for acting badly is to act well."
"I wish I could love as you do, but I seem to have lost the faculty of love."
Love
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
Power
"I have been in love before, but I am not now. I am now in love for the first time."
Love
"I wish I could love as you do, Basil."
Love
"I have grown to love secrecy."
Solitude
"I wish I could love as you do, but I seem to have lost the faculty."
Love
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Friendship
"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious."
"I wish I could love as you do, Harry."
Love
"One's life matters most."
Life
"The soul is a terrible reality."
Philosophy
"I am not what I seem. Really I am a very sad person."
Truth
"I have grown to love secrecy."
Solitude
"I have lost the passion of my youth."
Time