Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.