My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.