An active and creative reader is a re-reader.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.

I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life.

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.

Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?