A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

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

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.

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.

There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.