They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.
Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.