

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I daresay, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead

“That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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