Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Only in the present do things happen.

Life itself is a quotation.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

In general, every country has the language it deserves.