There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.