Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.