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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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

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It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.

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The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

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

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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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If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.

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Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

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

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

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