In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.