Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can’t see standing.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.