The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with i...
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You...
It is very wrong to kill any one[.]Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of...
As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.