“Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible.”

“An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.”

“This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.”

“The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.”

“As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception' painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.”

“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”

“Flattery
Is monstrous in a true friend.”

“He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.”

“You are not trivial.”

“Nothing is trivial.”