"Money is the purest reification of means, a tool that has become an absolute end."

"The metropolis exacts from man a different kind of consciousness than does rural life."

"The secret of life is to live as if one were immortal, and to die as if one were mortal."

"The value of an object is not in its usefulness, but in its exchangeability."

"The essence of fashion is that it is always in the process of becoming, and never is."