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"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

— Mark 8:36

‘You certainly have less vanity than any man I’ve ever known’, I said.
‘I love her so much better than myself. It seems to me that when vanity comes into love it can only be because really you love yourself best...'

‘Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.’

‘I tell you I’ve got to paint. I can’t help myself. When a man falls into the water it doesn’t matter how he swims, well or badly: he’s got to get out or else he’ll drown.’

‘Why do nice women marry dull men?’
‘Because intelligent men won’t marry nice women.’