My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.