Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.