The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.