Oscar Wilde. The Picture Of Dorian Gray (№ 843)

...how is it exciting to test the strength of their influence on the other person! Nothing can compare to it. To pour his soul into another, let her stay in it; to hear the echoes of his own thoughts, reinforced by the music of his youth and passion; to convey to another your temperament, as a subtle fluid or a peculiar flavor, is a real delight, the greatest joy, perhaps, what is given to man by our limited and vulgar age his glubokovodnye pleasures and probabilitie aspirations.