-The real drawback of marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colorless. They lack individuality.
-Pleasure is nature's test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
-Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.
-Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so absolutely uncivilized. Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only 2 ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate.
-The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of Faith and the lesson of Romance.
-I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art.
-Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.
-What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?
-I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
-The aim of life is self development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for.
-Young people nowadays imagine money is everything.
-Yes, and when they grow older, they know it.
-I can sympathize with everything except suffering.
-As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood each other. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
-Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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