Humility makes great men twice honourable.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
The novel is a lie that tells the truth, a lie that is more true than reality itself.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.