There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told -…

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with...

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with...

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact...

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact...

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the...

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the...

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Being a woman is a terribly task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Being a woman is a terribly task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the...

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the...

The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the...

The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the...

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the...

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the...

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient,...

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient,...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of...

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who...

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who...

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is...

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is...