Candida

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

That is what all the poets do: they talk to themselves outloud and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Nothing that’s worth saying is proper.