They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.