What is pity but the vice of kindness.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.