Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.