No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.