Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.