
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Life itself is a quotation.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved