Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats - all human life is there. People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. The fatal futility of Fact.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.