I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.