It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

We will talk of this again, when the grass has first withered on her grave. Then you'll hear him spouting about "the child too early torn from her father's heart;" then you'll see him steep himself in a syrup of sentiment and self-admiration and self-pity. Just you wait!

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?

The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice and exclusiveness through doing justice to individual artists by allowing their work into the canon, which will thereby be more complete, but fundamentally unchanged.