I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.
Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.