In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.
The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.