Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.