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.

el que viaja mucho va huyendo de cada lugar que deja y no buscando cada lugar a que llega.

- ¿Pero ahora se le ocurre comprar perro, señorito?

- No lo he comprado, Domingo; este perro no es esclavo, sino que es libre; lo he encontrado.

- Vamos, si, es expósito.

- Todos somos expósitos, Domingo

Yes, I know well that others before me have felt what I feel and express; that many others feel it today, although they keep silence about it. ...And I do not keep silence about it because it is for many the thing which must not be spoken, the abomination of abominations — infandum — and I believe that it is necessary now and again to speak the thing which must not be spoken. ...Even if it should lead only to irritating the devotees of progress, those who believe that truth is consolation, it would lead to not a little. To irritating them and making them say: "Poor fellow! if he would only use his intelligence to better purpose!... Someone perhaps will add that I do not know what I say, to which I shall reply that perhaps he may be right — and being right is such a little thing! — but that I feel what I say and I know what I feel and that suffices me. And that it is better to be lacking in reason than to have too much of it.