“Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.”
“Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages”
“I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.”
“If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to be attached. Detachment then should apply itself to getting rid of the traces of this scandal, the most serious and intolerable.”
“My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip.What is the difference between scandal and gossip?Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
“Handle your scandal.”