“Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?” IfsWantPassionMoneySecretJealousPossessedMistressSecret LifePossessiveWhat Is Life Book:A little tea, a little chat Source: A little tea, a little chat
“The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.” SecretJealousSecret Of My SuccessJealous Of Me Author:Elsa Maxwell
“but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few” MindKindMeanArtEyeFormWaitingSecretWonderRichEvolutionTasteMassArt IsPerfectionTransformationJealousRelativeYearningLockedGalleryTangibleRipeCollectorsTremblingEphemeralGlueCoarseHeathenWelding Author:Laird Barron
“I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldLifeGivingFirstsMightFoundSecretRaceVisionPowerWonderfulMysteryEternalSacredJealousFormulasEternal LifeCursedMystery Of LifeDelving Author:William Hurlbut