The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

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.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

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