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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
I have my beauty,—you your Art—
Nay, do not start:
One world was not enough for two
Like me and you.
Her Voice; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
I suppose Society is wonderfully delightful.
To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free.
Private property ... has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.
Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)