"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We..." - Quote by Honore De Balzac

“An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”

“It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.”

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

“Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.”

“The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.”

“In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are”

“Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.”

“Everything is true, and nothing is true!”

“I generally had to give in.”