“It is only for those without hope that hope is given.”

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”

“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.”

“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”

“We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.”

“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.”

“As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.”