A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the hum ...
You can only predict things after they have happened.
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.