A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.