In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion

People just need to relax and go about their life and enjoy life and enjoy Laurens for how they see Laurens.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

How did I picture the life after the grave?

I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.