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.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.