All art is useless.
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
And the mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing.
And how delightful other people's emotions are!
Then I feel that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. I cannot sympathize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.
The less said about life's sores the better.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time.
That would be hypocrisy.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
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