Quotes by writer

"I am a fox", the fox said."

"Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?"

"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."

"The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property."

"For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations."

"Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it."

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning."

"We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself."

"When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile."