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" A few months ago, they came and told me Nadja had gone mad. Following some eccentricities that she apparently engaged in in the corridors of her hotel, she had been committed to an insane asylum in the Vacluse."

" The main thing is that, for Nadja, I don't imagine there's much difference between the inside of an asylum and the outside. "

"So, he said, you want to take on the public subject, the big stuff. Democracy, fascism, history, ethics, revolution, God, mythology, the grand questions. You'll probably fail. Most public writers do."

" I always wrote out of deep unhappiness, and ever since I came to the College I have been happy, so writing has no longer felt necessary."