Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.