To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art’s temptations: that of being a genius.
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis – obviously an unproven one – that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
Only in the present do things happen.
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
The time for your labor has been granted.