The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.

But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.

And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.