To be popular I must be mediocre.
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
The weather still continues charming.
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.