Beauty is a rebellion against time.

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.