Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.