“ There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. ”
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
~ Walter Benjamin
Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.