What is real is beyond all reach.

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A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

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I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

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I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

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Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

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Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

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The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

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The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

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Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

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A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

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