Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

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.

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

You don't remember days, you remember moments.