Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

To become a work of art is the object of living.