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- The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
- Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
- Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered…
- The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.
- Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
- The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is…
- This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences…
- If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had…
- My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly…
- What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
- I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has…
- A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts…
- You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more…
- what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually…
- I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.
- I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when…
- How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to…
- Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle