Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

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.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!