The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
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The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
In the soul of one who is ignorant there is always room for a great idea.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done.
I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters all the same.
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation.
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Every single work of art is the fulfilment of a prophecy.