Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.