Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").
My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.
Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.