The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.