The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

No two moments are identical in a conscious being

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.