In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants. The other is getting it.
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Where your life leads you, you must go.
It's perfectly monstrous how people say things behind one's back that are absolutely true.
Remember, a gentleman should take a bath at least once a year.
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. And we find ourselves looking with dull heart of stone at the tress of gold-flecked hair that we had once so wildly worshipped and so madly kissed.
I can believe in anything, provided it's incredible. That's why I intend to die a Catholic, though I couldn't possibly live as one.
The Christians go around pretending they know who God is and how He works.
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