Melancholy Is Sadness That Has Taken On

One Reads Alone, Even In Another's Presence.

You Know That The Best You Can Expect Is To Avoid The Worst.

Why Come To Trude? I Asked Myself. And I Already Wanted To Leave. You Cand Resume Your Flight Whereever You Like," They Say To Me, "but You Will Arive At Another Trude, Absolutely The Same, Detail By Detail. The World Is Covered By A Sole Trude Which Does Not Begin And Does Not End. Only The Names Of The Airport Changes.

It's Better Not To Know Authors Personally, Because The Real Person Never Corresponds To The Image You Form Of Him From Reading His Books.

It Is Only Through The Confining Act Of Writing That The Immensity Of The Nonwritten Becomes Legible