An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
--Charles de Montesquieu
Conversation
The nausea and depression to which I awoke each morning led me at once into the world I intended to describe.
-Imre Kertész
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Replying to
If I write what I feel, it’s to reduce the fever of feeling.
-Fernando Pessoa, as Bernado Soares
Replying to
November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
—Emily Dickinson
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I was shipwrecked beneath a stormless sky
in a sea shallow enough to stand up in.
— Fernando Pessoa
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