- "Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. "
- "Every writer "creates" his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future."
- "I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."
- "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
- "Life itself is a quotation."
- "Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
- "The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
- "The original is unfaithful to the translation."
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