I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.