A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love.