Es una desgracia esto de tener que servirse uno de las cosas — pensó Augusto — ; tener que usarlas, el use estropea y hasta destruye toda belleza. La… - Miguel de Unamuno

El uso estropea y hasta destruye toda belleza. La función más noble de los objetos es la de ser contemplados.

But the truth is that my work — I was going to say my mission — is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

It is the furious longing to give finality to the Universe, to make it conscious and personal, that has brought us to believe in God, to wish that God may exist, to create God, in a word. To create Him, yes! This saying ought not to scandalize even the most devout theist. For to believe in God is, in a certain sense, to create Him, although He first creates us. It is He who is continually creating Himself.

«¿Por qué el diminutivo es señal de cariño? — iba diciéndose Augusto camino de su casa — . ¿Es acaso que el amor achica la cosa amada?