Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols of things. One will live. To live...
With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
When you really want love you willfind it waiting for you.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
When good Americans die, they go to ParisWhere do bad Americans go?They stay in America
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
We know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All we know who lie in gaol Is that the walls are strong And each day is like a year A year whose days are long.
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's...
There is no sin except stupidity.
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other - by language, which is the parent, and...
There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late
There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fe...
Then she gave one last burst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened its petals...
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made...
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.