Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.
Anything that consoles is fake.
When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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