And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

Consciousness is a disease.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.