Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.