Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.
Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
When in doubt, choose greatness.
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.
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