Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.