Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.