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

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

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.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.