Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

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

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.