Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
The world belongs to the discontented.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
The moon in her chariot of pearl
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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