Fiction is the microscope of truth.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.