The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-​destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates; if the former threatens, the latter strikes; if the former is bloody, the latter is lethal without spilling blood

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.