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1 " Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others. "
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez , The Sound of Things Falling
2 " Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what reason brings forth entirely out of itself cannot be hidden, but is brought to light by reason itself as soon as reason's common principle has been discovered. The perfect unity of this kind of cognition, and the fact that it arises solely out of pure concepts without any influence that would extend or increase it from experience or even particular intuition, which would lead to a determinate experience, make this unconditioned completeness not only feasible but also necessary. Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex. Dwell in your own house, and you will know how simple your possessions are. - Persius "
― Immanuel Kant , Critique of Pure Reason
3 " We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence. "
― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah
