Posted by: Silvia Menato
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
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We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in whyich it has been able to bear them. As a consequence everything that the world has always taken seriously is the comical side of things.
In married life three is company and two is none.
Only a very kind woman is capable of doing something very dumb.
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.