When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
It does the heart good to look at you.
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
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