Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.