You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

Time is the substance of which we are made

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

The time for your labor has been granted.

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.