"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties."
"All art is absolutely useless."Art
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
"The truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few."Truth
"In the old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody."Literature
"Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about."
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."Literature
"The facts of a person's life create the imagination of that person."
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people that we personally dislike."
"I have written nearly all my best criticisms in bed, in my nightgown."Creativity
"One should be wary of anyone who promises that their way of seeing things is the only way."
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain."
"I can forgive anybody for wronging me, but I cannot forgive anyone for wronging themselves."
"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else."
"I went to the British Museum and saw the Elgin Marbles. I can never look at the world the same way again."Inspiration