"The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" Quotes
A man investigates the life of his deceased half-brother, a famous writer, in an attempt to uncover the truth about his enigmatic existence.
fiction | 181 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal nights.
The human consciousness is really homogeneous.
I am not a philosopher, and for that reason I can be one.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
No single word is redundant.
The only way to live in a world without privacy is to cultivate detachment.
The human mind is a chaos that leads to order.
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
Fiction is, after all, the scar tissue of reality.
