He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
A manโs dying is more the survivorsโ affair than his own.