One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
To say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again.
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human