We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.