Writing History Is Like Drinking An Ocean

I Had, As I Told You, A Great Passion While Still Almost A Child. When It Was Over, I Divided Myself In Two, Placing On One Side The Soul I Kept For Art, And On The Other, My Body, Which Would Have To Fend For Itself.

Speech Is A Rolling Press That Always Amplifies One's Emotions.

Reveal Art; Conceal The Artist.

To Be Simple Is No Small Matter.

Let Us Not Kid Ourselves; Let Us Remember That Literature Is Of No Use Whatever, Except In The Very Special Case Of Somebody's Wishing To Become, Of All Things, A Professor Of Literature.