Vera / or, The Nihilists

mine ears are clogged to all sweet sounds save thine own voice, and mine eyes blinded to all sights but thee

It is some nightingale who, wearying of the south, has come to sing in this bleak north to lovers such as we.

One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour.

The tiger cannot change its nature, nor the snake lose its venom

He would have made you his mistress, used your body at his pleasure, thrown you away when he was wearied of you;

life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it

A chase after a beautiful woman is always exciting.

you will understand that there are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.

To strangle whatever nature is in me; neither to love nor to be loved; neither to pity nor to be pitied; neither to marry nor to be given in marriage, till the end is come.

no man could live if he took his neighbour's pack on his shoulders