How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. |
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. |
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am |
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. |
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! |
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. |
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul |
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in? |
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape |
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. |
What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting |
What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting |
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading |
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied. |