Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune..

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation..

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side..

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical con….

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very l….

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears..

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as havi….

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey..

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey..

It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience..

All confessions are Odysseys..

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality..

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream..

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey..

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history..

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love..

The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of ….

All societies are historical..

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune..

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is t….

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a t….