The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Buying is profound pleasure.

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.