Patras, Greece - 20071. “A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.”
2. "A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! And to be able to to live for ever you don't need to have extraordinary gifts or be able to do miracles. Who was Sancho Panza? Who was Prospero? But they will live for ever because - living seeds - they had the luck to find a fruitful soil, an imagination which knew how to grow them and feed them, so that they will live for ever."
3. "Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."
4. “Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”
5. "Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."
6. “In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”
7. “I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.”
8. “I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.”
9. “Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have...the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality (one for each and never the same for everyone) which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.”
10. "Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, because they are true."
11. “Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.”
12. “Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”
13. “Reality is an intangible, and what is taken for reality as a series of illusions.”
14. “We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.”
15. "Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow."
16. “When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.”
17. "When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself."
18. "Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!"
19. “You must not depend on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.”
