Novelist

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Menghadapi, selalu menghadapinya, itulah cara untuk melewatinya. Menghadapinya.

Mereka dilahirkan, mereka menderita, mereka mati; namun itu adalah kisah yang luar biasa!

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.