Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Art, that great undogmatized church.
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.