Aphorisms in action:

On authors

“I will never again read an author of whom I suspect that he wanted to make a book, but only those whose thoughts unexpectedly became a book.”

“Real thoughts of real poets always go about with a veil on, like Egyptian women.”

“Paradoxes are only assertions that carry no convictions. The author has made them wishing to appear brilliant, or to mislead, or above all to pose.”

On readers

“A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”

“Nowadays the text often disappears under the (reader’s) interpretation.”

“The weakness of modern personality comes out in the measureless overflow of criticism.”

Happy new year!

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