“If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.”
“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”
“There is nothing entirely new under this or any other sun.”
“Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings”
“In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.”
“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its own birth. In doing so, modernity is that fashionable illusion which only speaks to death”