To minor authors is left the ornamentation of the commonplace: these do not bother about any reinventing of the world; they merely... try to squeeze the best they can out of a given order of things, out of traditional patterns of fiction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possess ...an instinct for the secondary role.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentat...ion, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worse... yet, under their dress and ornamentation!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »