Qutaiba

“The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!”
― Paul Valéry

“Part of that Power, not understood, Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“Now, to go out into the world and bear
The earth's whole pain and joy, all this I dare;
To fight with tempests anywhere,
And in the grinding shipwreck stand and not despair!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“A light there is in the beyond which makes the Creator visible to the creature, who only in beholding Him finds peace.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso