The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

Another occupation might have been better.

'Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.' It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

You advise me, too, not to stray far from the ground of experience, as I become weak when I enter the region of fiction; and you say, 'real experience is peren…

Je suis un galerien de plume et d'encre.

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.