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every wise man’s mouth complimenting another wise man is a vase of honeyed gall.
Because every thought, either philosophical or religious, is interested in perpetuating itself;
And the inexplicable point about it is that the more blind is this passion, the more tenacious it is. It is never more solid than when it has no reason in it.
When the sponge is saturated, the sea may pass over it without causing a single drop more to enter it.
He was in one of those moments of egotistical, exclusive, supreme enjoyment when the artist beholds nothing in the world but art, and the world in art.
“When one has an idea, one encounters it in everything.”
For even if one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one is always of the religion of the temple which is nearest at hand.
Nothing touches when it comes from the man whom one does not love.
