As one suffers an illness

Posted on June 4, 2009 | Leave a comment

I have lived [The Immoralist] for four years and have written it to put it behind me. I suffer a book as one suffers an illness. I now respect only the books that all but kill their authors.

— Gide (quoted here)

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