Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

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

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.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

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.

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