“Living and ceasing to live are imaginary solutions; existence is elsewhere.”
“Living and seizing to live are imaginary solutions. Existence lies elsewhere.”
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.”
“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these are not made it ceases to exist.”