Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.