You Must Write For Yourself, Above All.

Maybe Happiness Too Is A Metaphor Invented On A Day Of Boredom

Do Not Read, As Children Do, To Amuse Yourself, Or Like The Ambitious, For The Purpose Of Instruction. No, Read In Order To Live.

But The Disparaging Of Those We Love Always Alienates Us From Them To Some Extent. We Must Not Touch Our Idols; The Gilt Comes Off In Our Hands.

Judge The Goodness Of A Book By The Energy Of The Punches It Has Given You. I Believe The Greatest Characteristic Of Genius, Is, Above All, Force.

Art Requires Neither Complaisance Nor Politeness; Nothing But Faith, Faith And Freedom.