It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.
The bourgeois are other people.
The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
Style is to forget all styles.
Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.