Writing then becomes a search for polypersonality, a way of living several destinies, of penetrating the Other, of communing with him. All the characters in a novel, even the trees of a forest, even the heavens are integrated into the life of the author, since they spring from him. The writer becomes conscious of the world he brings to life, he is its consciousness and in this way he escapes the ordinary limits of the Self, which is both intoxicating and enriching in lucidity. (There are doubtless other types of writers, individualists, who seek only self-affirmation and can view the world
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