What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

The world is always in movement.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.