Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.
Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.