Status Updates From Планета людей

"Only when we become aware of the part we play, even the most unobtrusive part, will we be happy. Only then will we live in peace and die in peace, for what gives meaning to life gives meaning to death."

"Experience teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction."

"Once again I have rubbed shoulders with a truth without fully comprehending it. I thought I was lost forever, I thought I had reached the bottom of the pit of despair, and then with renunciation I knew peace. It seems that at such times we discover ourselves and become our own friend."

"The desert is as smooth as marble. By day it forms no shade, and at night it delivers you up, naked, to the wind. Not a tree, not a hedge, not a stone that might have sheltered me. The wind is charging at me like a troop of cavalry on open ground. . . I cannot run, I have no strength left to flee the assassins, and I fall to my knees with my head in my hands, as the sabre stroke descends!"

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”

"Nothing is unbearable. Tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, I shall learn definitively that nothing is unbearable."

"Little by little, I am abandoned by light. The earth and sky merge gradually. The earth rises and seems to spread like a mist. The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. It will be a long time yet before they harden into diamonds. And still longer before I can witness the silent games of the shooting stars."