Become Less Valuable When Shared

Become More Valuable When Rare

is part and parcel of the work itself: a poem is often good until one knows who wrote it.

A poem is good until one knows by whom it is. Karl Kraus

is overrated. It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. Voltaire

is a violent and indestructible obsession.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

is an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.