#2,602

The only superiority not in danger of being eclipsed by a new superiority is that of style.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 421

#1,961

When a society’s intelligence becomes plebeian, literary criticism appears more lucid, albeit cruder.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,960

Error almost always walks more elegantly than the truth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,790

Style is the order to which man subjects chaos.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 295

#1,578

When originality is rare, innovation abounds.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 263

#1,415

Where gestures lack style, ethics itself becomes debased.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 240

#969

At the end of the last century there was only an “art without style”; in the second half of this century there is only a style without art.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 174