Art must take reality by surprise.

Art must take reality by surprise.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

At seventeen, you tend to go in for unhappy love affairs.