#cielquotes

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self," he replied, touching the thin stem of his glass with his pale, fine-pointed fingers. "Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. One's own life—that is the important thing. As for the lives of one's neighbours, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern. Besides, Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination.