"I distrust all general ideas."

"The greatest joy of reading is to discover a book that you like."

"I have often thought that the world is a dream, and that it will end like a dream."

"I am a man of letters, but I am also a man of action."

"One day, we'll wake up and we'll be old. And we'll be happy, or we'll be sad, or we'll be dead. But we'll be old."