We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap..

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best..

How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without t….

When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality t….

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world….

For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and tha….

Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes, and….