True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.