Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.