What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.
Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.
I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive tree. He did not move as we approached, but I fell that he was watching us. As soon as we had passe...
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
He yearned above all things for experience andfelt himself ridiculous because at his age he had not enjoyedthat which all fiction taught him was the most importantthing in life; but he had the unfortu...
A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in the characters and is concerned to see how they act in given circumstances, and wha...
The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it is only an illusion. But it is an illusion which is one of the strongest motives of my actions. Before...
It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born,...
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved.
There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.