“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary — she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness.”

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.