“Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to awaken, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a state of constant dissatisfaction with themselves.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“The only demand I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.”