It’s no easy business to be simple.

“Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.”

“Les deux femmes, vêtues de noir, remirent le corps dans le lit de ma sœur, elle…”

“One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible …”

“It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.”