Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?' The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.' And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something that literature cannot decide. Literature recognizes rather the *reality of the levels.*

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.