I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life."

"The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion."

"On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."