Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 19, 1910 Death: April 15, 1986
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology..
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny..
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness..
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible..
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had ….
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun..
I decided to be what crime made of me..
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that….
They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the re….
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity..
It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go..
My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught..
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both elu….
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle..
Violence is a calm that disturbs you..
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?.
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance..
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them..
The pimp has a grin, never a smile..
Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist..
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts..