You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

La intensidad del momento se perdió en detalles vulgares

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yeild to it.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afriad.

Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.