“I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.”
― The Stream of Life
― The Stream of Life
“As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy. Often before falling asleep - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and enter the greater world - often, before having the courage to go toward the greatness of sleep, I pretend that someone is holding my hand and I go, go toward the enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even then I can't find the courage, then I dream.”
― The Passion According to G.H.
― The Passion According to G.H.
“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”
― The Hour of the Star
― The Hour of the Star
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