Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.