How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.