An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.