“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mi...”

“Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice”

“We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.”

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experien...”

“To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.”

“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base,...”

“In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recogniz...”

“My past is everything I failed to be.”