All Poetry Like Every Work Of Art

While Seeking Out The Dead, I See Nothing But The Living.

Now Literary Success Can Only Be Won In Solitude By Persevering Labor.

Tradesmen Regard An Author With A Mixed Feeling Of Terror, Compassion And Curiosity.

Virginity, Like All Monstrosities, Possesses Special Riches And Its Own Absorbing Grandeur. Among The Chaste, Life Forces Are Economized And Thus Gain In Resistance And Durability.

How Sternly We Reproach Virtue For Its Failings, How Indulgent We Are To The Better Qualities Of Vice!