That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

Love dies because its birth was an error.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.