It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.