That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.