Life Does Not Proceed By

On The Other Hand, The Pleasure Caused By Laughter, Even On The Stage, Is Not An Unadulterated Enjoyment; It Is Not A Pleasure That Is Exclusively Esthetic Or Altogether Disinterested. It Always Implies A Secret Or Unconscious Intent, If Not Of Each One Of Us, At All Events Of Society As A Whole. In Laughter We Always Find An Unavowed Intention To Humiliate, And Consequently To Correct Our Neighbour, If Not In His Will, At Least In His Deed.

Intelligence Is Characterized By A Natural Incomprehension Of Life.

An Absolute Can Only Be Given In An Intuition, While All The Rest Has To Do With Analysis.

Art Has No Other Object Than To Set Aside The Symbols Of Practical Utility, The Generalities That Are Conventionally And Socially Accepted, Everything In Fact Which Masks Reality From Us, In Order To Set Us Face To Face With Reality Itself.

All The Translations Of A Poem In All Possible Languages May Add Nuance To Nuance And, By A Kind Of Mutual Retouching, By Correcting One Another, May Give An Increasingly Faithful Picture Of The Poem They Translate, Yet They Will Never Give The Inner Meaning Of The Original.