It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

...Life is nothing but trading smells.

Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Now I will have less distraction.

Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.