One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

A good book is an event in my life.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.