Why was I born with such contemporaries?
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.