The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

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The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.