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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.