“But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.”
“A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.”
“One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.”
“What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing!”
“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”
“Think of life as a story. Each one must come to an end, for it to have form and meaning. What gives life to the stories are the bodies at the end of them.”