How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.