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- Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
- The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
- Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
- At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with…
- Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
- The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
- In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
- A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation…
- A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
- There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea,…
- Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may…
- Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who…
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