Don't sleep, don't sleep, artist, Don't give in to sleep. You are eternity's hostage A captive of time. - Boris Pasternak

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

"How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if it were the simplest possible thing, a thing even animals could do. As if she were carrying water from a well, or peeling potatoes."
These reflections calmed him. A rare peace descended upon his soul. His mind stopped darting from subject to subject. He could not help smiling...

A candle burned on the table, a candle burned ... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.