Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
To know the world, one must construct it
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.