Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.