Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.