Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. Essays
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us. Journals
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. Collected Works, vol. 11
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