To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer$$$ is to have kept your soul alive.

I travel not to go anywhere$$$ but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

He brushed away the thunder$$$ then the clouds$$$ then the colossal illusion of heaven. Yet still the sky was blue.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars$$$ who$$$ in the known alone$$$ would shrivel up with boredom.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

If you sincerely believed in God$$$ how could you form one thought$$$ speak one sentence$$$ without mentioning Him?

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

Faith$$$ I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.'

In the Soviet army$$$ it takes more courage to retreat than advance.