The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.
The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.
It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.
Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.