Speech is civilization itself.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Everything is politics.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?