“Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.”
“Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.”
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
“A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.”
“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.”
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”