Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary work comes into being as its creator's cry of protest against the forgetting that looms over him, over his predecessors and his contemporaries alike, and over his time, and the language he speaks. A literary work is something that defies death.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.