Reading Is An Activity Subsequent To Writing:

The Steps A Man Takes From The Day Of His Birth Until That Of His Death Trace In Time An Inconcievable Figure. The Divine Mind Intuitively Grasps That Form Immediately, As Men Do A Triangle.

The Possibilities Of The Art Of Combination Are Not Infinite, But They Tend To Be Frightful.

Then He Reflected That Reality Does Not Usually Coincide With Our Anticipation Of It; With A Logic Of His Own He Inferred That To Forsee A Circumstantial Detail Is To Prevent Its Happening. Trusting In This Weak Magic, He Invented, So That They Would Not Happen, The Most Gruesome Details.

The Certainty That Everything Has Already Been Written Annuls Us, Or Renders Us Phantasmal.

The Future Is As Irrevocable As An Inflexible Yesterday.