History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
People's fates are simplified by their names.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.