p. 94 - About the opposite apartment that is like a reflection, every single item
p. 123 - Reread whole of chapter one or remember
'He knew that a writer recognizes himself as such by his reading. Every writer must be, first and foremost, a reader. He swiftly and efficiently covered the volumes published in the four languages he knew, making use of translations only for access to fundamentals of classical or marginal literatures. However, he distrusted the superstition that all translations were inferior to the original text, because the original was merely the score from which the interpreter executed the work. This - he later observed - did not impoverish the text, but endowed it with an almost infinite number of interpretations or forms, all potentially valid. He believed there was no literature, no matter how lateral or trifling, that did not contain all the elements of Literature, all its magic, all its abysses, all its games. He suspected that reading was an act of informative indolence: the truly literary thing was re-reading. Three or four books contained, as Flaubert believed, all the wisdom to which man had access, but the titles of these books also varied for each man.
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