The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether.

如果你不冒险，你永远不知道自己能取得什么成就。

即使是小小的技艺，也一定有值得一看的地方。但对于远大的事业恐怕有所阻碍，所以君子不去干这些。