When One Is In Love One Always Begins By Deceiving

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”

“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”