But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.