Right is right only when entire.

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.