“The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modif...”

“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”

“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”

“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

“To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terribl...”