1. “Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.”
2. “Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction .”
3. “The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
4. “Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.”
5. “He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wear no vest.”
6. “To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
7. “Never stop writing because you have to run of ideas.”
8. “Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”
9. “All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
10. “Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.”
11. “Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism.”
12. “History breaks down into images, not into stories.”
13. “tIt is only for those without hope that hope is given.”
14. “The work of memory collapses time.”
15. “There is no mue of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.”
16. “Of all the ways of acquiring books writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.”
17. “The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.”
18. “Literature tells very little to those who understand it.”
19. “No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.”
20. “Any order is a balancing at of extreme precariousness.”
21. “The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.”
22. “Every passion borders n the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories”
23. “Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”
24. “The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.”
25. “In the world’s structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.”
26. “All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.”
27. “Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.”
28. “To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.”
29. “The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom is dying out.”
30. “Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.”
