Occupation: Novelist Birth: July 25, 1905 Death: August 14, 1994
The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was hone….
Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave..
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books..
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?.
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well..
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….
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I..
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….
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation..
Learning is the art of ignoring..
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations..
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes..
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown..
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster..
Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding..
I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; ….
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you..
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim..
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams..
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….