Book: Clown Shalimar

He could love her, if not forgotten, as it happens. He could not find the road to love. He only remembered the way to hatred.

It is impossible to jump from heaven to hell in one leap - it is necessary where-that to stop

- The highest goal of man is to live in the world, but not to live his passions; the highest good is to extinguish the flame burning you, and live in a state of complete dispassion...

... Dark as a secret, bright as happiness itself, - his first and his only love...

... Like Venus, orbiting the sun, could not resist his influence, and does not wish for myself a different fate, as to remain in the sphere of his attraction, even at a considerable distance...