Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side by side, each through the other, without ever speaking of the matter, without reproaches, each wearing a smile.

“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and treble…”

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”

“People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well tha…”

“I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.”