Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.
it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.