Saintliness is also a temptation.
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
What you get free costs too much.