A writer is selected by his subject—his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

建筑师必须是一个工匠。

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.