The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

Love is wiser than wisdom.

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.