It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.