“Imposs’ble!” he exclaimed, dumfounded, mutilating the word.
–Mircea Eliade, Youth Without Youth
Mircea Eliade
Original analyses, discoveries, and interpretations
“Why would you have to discover something? Your genius ought to be to fulfill yourself in the life you live, not in original analyses, discoveries, and interpretations. Your model ought to be Socrates or Goethe; but imagine a Goethe without a written opus!”
–Mircea Eliade, Youth Without Youth
The Floating Library 