All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer. - Gaston Bachelard

The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak....it was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us.

Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.