Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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