Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Great dancers aren't great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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