It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

Man is bound to lie about himself