Active People Don't Change The World Profoundly;

Not Having Anything Around To Read Is Dangerous: You Have To Content Yourself With Life Itself, And That Can Lead You To Take Risks.

This Progressive Effacement Of Human Relationships Is Not Without Certain Problems For The Novel. How, In Point Of Fact, Would One Handle The Narration Of Those Unbridled Passions, Stretching Over Many Years, And At Times Making Their Effect Felt On Several Generations? We’re A Long Way From Wuthering Heights, To Say The Least. The Novel Form Is Not Conceived For Depicting Indifference Or Nothingness; A Flatter, More Terse, And Dreary Discourse Would Need To Be Invented.

Anything Can Happen In Life, Especially Nothing.

I Tend To Think That Good And Evil Exist And That The Quantity In Each Of Us Is Unchangeable. The Moral Character Of People Is Set, Fixed Until Death.

To Increase Desires To An Unbearable Level Whilst Making The Fulfillment Of Them More And More Inaccessible: This Was The Single Principle Upon Which Western Society Was Based.