The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
Andre MauroisThe reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
Andre MauroisThe difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre MauroisThe need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.
Andre Maurois