Best 8 quotes of Renee Vivien on MyQuotes

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

Friendship is more dangerous than love, since its roots are stronger and go deeper than the roots of love. The anguish of friendship is more bitter than the anguish of love. Certain souls love friendship as others love love; they suffer through friendship as others through love. They have in their lives only one friendship as others have but a single love. It is when they lose friendship that they despair hopelessly.

My brunette with the golden eyes, your ivory body, your amber Has left bright reflections in the room Above the garden. The clear midnight sky, under my closed lids, Still shines… I am drunk from so many roses Redder than wine. Leaving their garden, the roses have followed me… I drink their brief breath, I breathe their life. All of them are here. It’s a miracle… The stars have risen, Hastily, across the wide windows Where the melted gold pours. Now, among the roses and the stars, You, here in my room, loosening your robe, And your nakedness glistens Your unspeakable gaze rests on my eyes… Without stars and without flowers, I dream the impossible In the cold night.

She embodies all the melancholy of autumn. She has learned to cherish with mournful tenderness a past she dares not remember.