“Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.”
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“The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.”
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“Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.”
― In the Forests of Serre
― In the Forests of Serre
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