But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.