“There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.”

“What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!”

“It is only those who never do anything who never make mistakes.”

“Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?”

“To think, for instance, that I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. There are people who wear the same face for years; naturally it wears out, it gets dirty, it splits at the folds, it stretches, like gloves one has worn on a journey. These are thrifty, simple people; they do not change their face, they never even have it cleaned. It is good enough, they say, and who can prove to them the contrary? The question of course arises, since they have several faces, what do they do with the others? Thhey store them up. Their children will wear them. But sometimes, too, it happens that their dogs go out with them on. And why not? A face is a face.”

“She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.”