En los momentos más terribles de la vida solemos caer en una suerte de irresponsabilidad protectora y en vez de pensar en lo que nos ocurre dirigimos la atención a trivialidades.

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

La femme au foulard m’est devenue indispensable. Toute cette hygiène de ne rien espérer est peut-être un peu ridicule. Ne rien espérer de la vie, pour ne pas la risquer; se considérer comme mort, pour...

Je crois que nous perdons l’immortalité parce que la résistance à la mort n’a pas évolué; nous insistons sur l’idée première, rudimentaire, qui est de retenir vivant le corps tout entier. Il suffirait de chercher...

He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply...

I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures… Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know...

The influence of the future on the past,” said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a...

…when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.