Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

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.

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

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

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.