“The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.”
“If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.”
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.”
“He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.”
“Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads, or Fuji apples, books, once consumed, do not disappear.”
“...The real cause of hunger is a scarcity of justice, not a scarcity of food. Enough grain is squandered every day in raising American livestock for meat to provide every human being on earth with two loaves of bread.”