The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
Imagination grows by exercise.
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
The tragedy of love is indifference.
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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