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

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

“To deny temporal succession, to deny the self, to deny the astronomical universe, are measures of apparent despair and of secret consolation. Our destiny (in contrast to Swedenborg's hell and the hell of Tibetan mythology) is not frightful because it is unreal; it is frightful because it is irrevers...”

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