The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.