“Because love is a riddle, as is life itself.”
“The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.”
“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”
“Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.”
“What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.”
“The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.”