What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

you will always love, and you will always be loved

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.