Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

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.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.