The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.