After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.
What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.
He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.