So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

In a way, I was safe writing

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.