All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.