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Love is a drama of contradictions.

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I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.

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My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could o...more

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love wit...more

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.

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It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure...more