Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

469. — We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

We could not think of going back to the symbolic measures of the ancients and the primitives. Such cheap magician's tricks did not appeal to us.

We ought not to desire the impossible.

..we didn't have the intention at all of founding a new style.. .What we wanted, was a refusal of the outmoded, overly-cultivated art practices.

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

Forbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Do what I will never do.

We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of — but we never love again.