I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.

We must discover security within ourselves.

And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.