I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these t...erms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charit...y of friends, or a government pension,--provided you continue to breathe,--by whatever fine synonyms you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse. On Sundays the poor debtor goes to church to take an account of stock, and finds, of course, that his outgoes have been greater than his income. In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »