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We live for books.
I write what I write.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
I felt like poisoning a monk.
Simple mechanisms do not love.
Our life is full of empty space.
The followers must feel besieged.
Books always speak of other books.
Translation is the art of failure.
To survive, you must tell stories.
Libraries can take the place of God.
A secret is powerful when it is empty.
The truth is an anagram of an anagram.
Sometimes my characters are not myself.
We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
The good of a book lies in its being read.
We like lists because we don't want to die.
Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays
I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.
The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.
Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.