"What is past is past."
Change
"I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous."
Fear
"Ugliness is the only real evil in the world."
Beauty
"I wish you would tell me that you are wicked, Harry."
Truth
"My conscience is no longer my guide."
"I grew tired of their tragedies."
Relationships
"I loved her once. I think I still do."
Love
"Ah, but what a silly thing love is! It is not what I expected it to be."
Love
"One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders."
Wisdom
"I wish I could love as you do, but I seem to have lost the passion and the power."
Love
"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us."
Solitude
"I have given my whole soul to someone who treated it as a plaything."
Love
"I hope I am not that."
Hope
"I don't think I like being at the mercy of the gods anymore."
Fear
"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face."
Truth
"I have always been my own master; let that be my epitaph."
Freedom
"I wish I could love as you do, Henry."
Love
"I hope I shall always be like that."
Beauty
"Words! Mere words! How terrible they are! How clear, and vivid, and cruel!"
Power
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions."
Strength
"The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away."
Philosophy
"I wonder what sort of lives you fellows lead."
"I cannot give you an answer to-night. It is too late to-night."
Time
"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous."
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
Art
"I wish I could love as you do, Basil."
Love
"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous."
Life
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, to dominate them."
Power
"Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!"
Beauty
"What a thing it is to be at war with oneself!"