What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.