A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work. - Cesare Pavese

We were very young. I don't think I ever slept that year, but I had a friend who slept even less than I did. Some mornings you could see him strolling up and down in front of the station when the first trains were arriving and leaving.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

We were at the age when a friend's conversation seems like oneself talking, when one shares a life in common the way I still think, bachelor though I am, some married couples are able to live.