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I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
I love life—that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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