She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.
She is written in a foreign tongue.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.