Barbarism is the antithesis of culture only within a structure of thought that provides us the concept.
Asia surrounds us — wherever one’s glance rests, a Tartar physiognomy.
And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and that most of them were feverish.
Analysis can be a very unappetizing affair, as much so as death.
All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.