Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the f...
Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and f...
A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountai...
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.
Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
Paradise will be a kind of library
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 it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable image...
I've fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness
The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.
There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to prophesize the time in which it might have fallen silent, how to attack...
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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