Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.