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"She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."
"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"
"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance."
"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
"Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy."
"I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else."
"Man is many things, but he is not rational."
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
"I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips"
"I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much"
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
"The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering."
"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it."
"California is an Italy without its art."