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I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight f...more

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The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give th...more

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Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.

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Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

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Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my pen is like a shard that has b...more

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I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and you know nothing else about him, just a...more

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The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

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How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take shape and disappear without anyone...more

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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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This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas ...more