"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through."
"It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined."
艺术就是爱，爱就是艺术。
"I'm not perfect, but I'm trying every day to concentrate on being better."
The novel is the most ambitious attempt to capture the human condition.