“For official purposes, these children do not exist.”
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
“Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us...not simply the official existence.”
“Pleasure is not the purpose of man’s existence. Joy is.”
“Beauty is the advertisement of the existence. Its purpose is to make you hold the existence tightly.”