Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
A book is a suicide postponed.
A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.
Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?
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