As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

No bad man can be a good poet.