Occupation: Novelist Birth: July 25, 1905 Death: August 14, 1994
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams..
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you..
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes..
Learning is the art of ignoring..
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books..
Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding..
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhel….
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you..
I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; ….
I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, eve….
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well..
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation..
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown..
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations..
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster..
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I..
It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning i….
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim..