All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.