Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge. - Gaston Bachelard

In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . . . And if we want to go beyond history, or even, while remaining in history, detach from our own history the always too contingent history of the persons who have encumbered it, we realize that the calendars of our lives can only be established in its imagery.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

We cannot say what reality is, only what it seems like to us.