“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”

“We couldn't understand because we were too far… and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign… and no memories.”

“Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.”

“To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.”

“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.”

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

“The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties. … Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience. … The Versailles Dictate cannot be an eternal document, because not only its economic, but also its spiritual and moral premises are wrong.”

“People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.”

“Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world”

“We define only out of despair, we must have a formula… to give a facade to the void.”