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The Public is merely a multiplied “me.”

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

I am a 100% individualist. That’s my principle.

My mind is my own church.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

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

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.