Success Is A Consequence And Must Not

What Wretched Poverty Of Language! To Compare Stars To Diamonds!

One Arrives At Style Only With Atrocious Effort, With Fanatical And Devoted Stubbornness.

Sometimes I Think I'm Liquefying Like An Old Camembert.

But The Most Wretched Thing, Is It Not-is To Drag Out, As I Do, A Useless Existence. If Our Pains Were Only Of Some Use To Someone, We Should Find Consolation In The Thought Of The Sacrifice.

In Her Enthusiasms She Had Always Looked For Something Tangible: She Had Always Loved Church For Its Flowers, Music For Its Romantic Words, Literature For Its Power To Stir The Passions And She Rebelled Before The Mysteries Of Faith Just As She Grew Ever More Restive Under Discipline, Which Was Antipathetic To Her Nature.