In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.