When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.