Everything changes but the avant-garde.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.