1. “Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.”
2. “To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”
3. “You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.”
4. “Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”
5. “A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.”
6. “Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
7. “Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.”
8. “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a falliable gd.”
9. “When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”
10. “Life itself is a quotation.”
11. “Death is just infinity closing in.”
12. “Each thing implies the universe.”
13. “Censorship is the mother of metaphor.”
14. “Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.”
15. “What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.”
16. “Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.”
17. “Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.”
18. “There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.”
19. “Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”
20. “I think most people are more important than their opinions.”
21. “Form my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.”
22. “Every man should be capable of all ideas.”
23. “The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
24. “Writing s nothing but a guided dream.”
25. “A writer’s work is the product of laziness.”
26. “Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.”
27. “Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”
28. “The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.”
29. “In general, every country has the language it deserves.”
30. “Only in the present do things happen.”
