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Art is fire plus algebra.

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I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

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A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

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We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

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Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.

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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

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There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects ...more

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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or ...more

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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

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And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations....more

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I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all ...more

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... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

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I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an...more