“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

“God has created nights well-populatedwith dreams, crowded with mirror images,so that man may feel that he is nothing morethan vain reflection. That's what frightens us.”

“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”

“The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.”

“It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.”

“So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.”

“The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”