I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in nowadays, are ones focused on gang violence or dancing.
In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.
We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.
In the end, there is no end.
The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.
It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen. . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still