← It is true that had his gifts, such as they were, been acknowledged in his lifetime, he would never have made the bargain I saw him make—that strange bargain whose results have kept him always in the foreground of my memory. 🔊
← I used to keep it lying carelessly on the table in my room, and whenever a friend took it up and asked what it was about, I would say: "Oh, it's rather a remarkable book. 🔊
← Neither he nor his work received the slightest encouragement; but he persisted in behaving as a personage: always he kept his dingy little flag flying. 🔊
← You imagine that a great artist's faith in himself and in the verdict of posterity is enough to keep him happy. 🔊
← I remembered that clocks in restaurants are kept five minutes fast. 🔊
← He went to the middle desk and asked where the catalogue of twentieth-century books was kept. 🔊