Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.