On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
May new sufferings torment your soul.
It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.