Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.