What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

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Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.

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We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

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Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.

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I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

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I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.

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The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.

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The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

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Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

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