Book: The moon and sixpence. Page 1

But still I like them because there giving you a reason to make a joke.

We become like the tram wagons running on rails from one end station to another; you can almost accurately calculate how many passengers these cars transported.

People so hungry for recognition, so insanely afraid that colleagues will judge him that he is in a hurry to open the gate on my worst enemy; now the enemy is relentlessly following him, faithfully defending the interests of his master, is fundamentally repress the slightest tendency of a person to fend off the herd. And the person begins to believe that the good of the society above personal benefits. The ties that bind man to mankind, is a very strong bond.

Only a woman can with unflagging vehemence ten times in a row saying the same thing.

... the problem is that fear can not cope with its role never allowed me to play the moralist.

Why cute women so often go for dull men?
Because smart men don't marry pretty women.

I wanted to remain unnoticed, to quietly observe these great people, quietly listening to their clever speech.

In my opinion, they know too much and feel too superficial... Their passion seems to me to be thin, their dreams - is boring.

The man laid the ability to myth-making. So people, greedily soaking up stunning or mysterious stories about the lives of those that stood out from among his own kind, doing the legend, and themselves imbued with fanatical faith in it. It is a rebellion of romanticism against the mediocrity of life.

Actor, artist, poet or musician, his art, the sublime or beautiful, satisfies the aesthetic sense; but that barbarous satisfaction, it is akin to the sexual instinct, for he gives you himself.

Women always fondly recall my first lover, but if they manage to remember who was the first?

Bold words, which seem so new to him who utters them was, and almost with the same intonation, uttered hundreds of times.

I think art is a manifestation of the sexual instinct. The same feeling makes strongly beating human heart at the sight of a beautiful woman, the Bay of Naples in the moonlight, and "the provisions of the coffin" by Titian.

The devil will always be able to find and wrap in its favor the quote from the Bible.