Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.