It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.