Libraries can take the place of God.

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.