The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

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.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

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

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.