“Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”

“There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.”

“To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.”

“Come chocolates, pequena;Come chocolates!Olha que não há mais metafísica no mundo senão chocolates.Olha que as religiões todas não ensinam mais que a confeitaria.”

“I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.”

“If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.”

“There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness”