“But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
“I am in a house. I am in one room and my anxiety is in another. It's close. I can feel it. I can go to it. But I won't.”
“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”
“I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.”
“If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.”