Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Manners before morals!
Life is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
Women who have common sense are so curiously plain...
She certainly has a wonderful faculty of remembering people's names and forgetting their faces.
I'm always pleased to know my relatives have been insulted. It is the only link I have with them. Relatives are simply a tedious bunch of people who haven't the slightest idea of how to live, or the slightest inckling for the right time to die.
There is something terribly ungenerous in other people's tragedies.
To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.