Quotes from book

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

“We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”

“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”

“Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.”

“I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”

“(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.”

“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”