"I am afraid I am more interested in the shape of sentences than in their moral implications."

"I fear that I shall never be able to finish my book. It is too long, too complex, too difficult."

"To learn to read in the school of life, to learn to write in the school of death."

"I am a man who has lived in exile for many years, but I have never forgotten my homeland."

"The artist's life is a life of suffering."