In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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 =

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

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

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

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.