Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.