It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.