“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. ”

“The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.”

“I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.”

“Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step!”

“WHORES.Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.”

“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.”