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- Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that…
- To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not…
- The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves
- It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the…
- Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make…
- 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…
- 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…
- Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without…
- The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of…
- Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me,…
- For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave.…
- Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.
- Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something…
- New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for…
- 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…
- You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that…
- I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend…
- Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to…
- It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible
- For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.
- Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
- Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not,…
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