“I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person.”

“The centuries have grown heavy and weigh upon the moment. We are more corrupt than all the ages, more decomposed than all the empires. Our exhaustion interprets history, our breathlessness makes us hear the death rattle of nations... the curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing, now, but masks and ghosts...”

“This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique – and insignificant.”

 "O que eu sei arruína o que eu desejo."