“Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?”

“These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they live, and they therefore see in it nothing more than an indifferent framework for life, either more or less favorable to production.”

“Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer”

“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish, yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”