“In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.”
“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
“Dignity is a bridge.It needs two sides that, being different, distinct and distant become one in the bridgewithout ceasing to be different and distinct, but ceasing already to be distant.”
“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.”
“One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.”
“The minute we look, we cease being afraid.”