Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

The wise man is astonished by anything.

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.