I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

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

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.