Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.