Lucky we are to have such a staunch advocate “on behalf of literature”
“I fear non-existence. When life goes on and one doesn’t experience anything anymore, one is no longer there.”
—Marcel Reich-Raniki, German literary critic
And on a completely unrelated note:
”I became obsessed with the terrifying thought that these texts would expose me completely to the public at large as I really was, namely a trickster and a deceiver and nothing more, a philosopher who knew nothing about the history of philosophy or about Marx.”
–Louis Althusser, author of Pour Marx (In support of Marx)