1. “The good of a book lies in its being read.”
2. “There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.”
3. “The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.”
4. “To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.”
5. “The real hero is always a hero by mistake.”
6. “Every great thinker is someone else’s moron.”
7. “If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you’re an idiot.”
8. “Love is wiser than wisdom.”
9. “It is necessary to meditate early and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.”
10. “We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
11. “A wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.”
12. “Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.”
13. Beauty is boring because it is predictable”.”
14. “To survive, you must tell stories.”
15. “There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, teh stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of four.”
16. “Translation is the art of failure.”
17. “The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for truth.”
18. “Naturally, everything depends on one’s background books and on what one is looking for.”
19. “A secret is powerful when it is empty.”
20. “We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.”
21. “A dream is a scripture and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
22. “When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.”
23. “History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.”
24. “Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.”
25. “Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.”
26. “Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another.”
27. “If somebody writes a book and doesn’t care for survival of that book, he’s an imbecile.”
28. “Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.”
29. “When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.”
30. “Monsters exist because they are part of the divine pan, and in the horrible feature of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.”
