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In a man’s attachment to life there is something stronger than all the ills in the world.
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
There is in the human condition (and this is a commonplace of all literatures) a basic absurdity as well as an implacable nobility.
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable. Modern man, however, takes the credit for it himself, when he doesn’t fail to recognize
