My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.