You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.