Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.