The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.