It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?