“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...”

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”

“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, c...”

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”