What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that he's already like a corpse even though he's still alive. Because truly nasty people hate everyone, to be sure, but most of all themselves. Can't you tell when a person hates himself? He becomes a living cadaver, it numbs all his negative emotions but also all the good ones so he won't feel nauseated by who he is.

... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.