Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Never Give In!

“Why, Milena, do you write about our common future which will never be, or is it that why you write about it? (…) Few things are certain, but one is that we’ll never live together, share an apartment, body to body, at a common table, never, not even in the same city. (…) Incidentally, Milena, you must agree when you examine yourself and me and take soundings of the “sea” between “Vienna” and “Prague” with its insurmountably high waves.” (Prague, September 1920) Letters To Milena

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions. Book V

“Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanors, and faith quickly becomes cruel if is not subdued by certain doubts.” Leo Africanus