People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.
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.