Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!