The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.

Time is the substance of which we are made

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

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.