I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on many young writers.

“Tener encanto es oír que te contestan sí sin haber hecho ninguna pregunta...”

“Quand une guerre éclate, les gens disent: «Ça ne durera pas, c'est trop bête.» …”

“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a h…”

“once I admitted the arguments of necessity and force majeure put forward by the…”