Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be! I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger - anything that can blow your candles out! - for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura - and so goodbye:

You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

All lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love.

Love doesn't go away because we want it to, but remains even when it becomes a searing pain, leaving the heart a desert of bitter remorse and grief for joy, a …

Before you, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. And then you shot across the sky, like a meteor. Su…