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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
“the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
The people who have adored me—there have not been very many, but there have been some—have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.
Her death has all the pathetic uselessness of martyrdom, all its wasted beauty.
ennui,
misanthrope.
It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
garrulous
calumnies,
sidled
automatons
riposte.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
