"Do we see the hundred-thousandth part of what exists? Look here, there is the wind, which is the strongest force in nature, which knocks down men, and blows down buildings, destroys cliffs and casts great ships on the rocks; the wind which kills, which whistles, which sighs, which roars - have you ever seen it, and can you see it? It exists for all that, however."
"Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms."
-Guy de Maupassant