Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why but the editorialists forget it terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.