The Narrator

"All art is quite useless."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book."

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative."

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt."

"The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography."

"It is what you are that matters, not what you have been."

"The value of art lies in the fact that it teaches us to see the world as we wish."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of a mockery."

"The mysteries of life are the colorless unities of which existence is composed."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"There are moments when the simple things of life are what we want most."

"The capacity for hope is the most human of all qualities."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"All art is quite useless."

"She had not known him. He had passed out of her life like a dream."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming."

"There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog the faltering steps of the stage actor."

"What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"

"The mind has its mysteries, as the body has its diseases."

"I can forgive anything except what I cannot forgive."

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

"The mind has its own geography."

"The mask tells us more than the face."

"What fire was in the heart that fed this strange new worship?"

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

"The world has always laughed at its own tragedies."

"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."

"Some people are worth melting for."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."