Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.
Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.