“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

“The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.”

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”

“There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.”

“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”

“There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.”

“She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.”