The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

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

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

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

To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.