"It is because they imply the sacrifice of a more or less advantageous position to a purely private happiness that, as…"

"Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disp…"

"The idea that one has long held of a person is apt to stop one’s eyes and ears; my mother, for three whole years, had…"

"Fashions change, being themselves begotten of the desire for change."

"Finally, if I went to see Berma in a new play, it would not be easy for me to assess her art and her diction, since I…"

"The doctor … advised my parents not to let me go to the theatre. … The fear of this might have availed to stop me, if…"

"Whereas I had hated them for their cruelty, their consent made them now so dear to me that the thought of causing the…"

"Believing the language to be less rich in words than it is, and her own ears less trustworthy, the first time that sh…"

"If one has lost sight for a score of years of all the people on whose account one would have liked to be elected to t…"

"Huysmans ... was one day to astonish the world by his resounding cry: À rebours! denouncing with a fine fanaticism th…"