Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.