“If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.”

“But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”

“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.”

“They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”

“Thus and thus only the Christian could face the problem squarely and, scorning subterfuge, pierce to the heart of the supreme issues, the essential choice. And his choice would be to believe everything, so as not be forced into denying everything.”

“They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.”

“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.”