What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.