Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.

What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.