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“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on.
“The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty,”
“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime.
“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart,”
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of Faith, and the lesson of Romance.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
