I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic