1. The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
2. Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
3. Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
4. Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
5. The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
6. The work of memory collapses time.
7. Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings