Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.