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

“The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols of things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”