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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
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