"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls."
"The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate."
"Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life."
"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."
"Night, when words fade and things come alive."
"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored."
"No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."
"Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living."
"Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls."
