"The Poet had, who had made a show of attaching no importance to this literary game (though it gnawed at his heart that he himself had not written such beautiful letters, provoking replies even more beautiful), and having no one with whom to fall in love, had fallen in love with the letters themselves — which, as Niketas remarked with a smile — was not surprising, since in youth we are prone to fall in love with love. Baudolino

Therefore each of us must discover for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden—forbidden to him. Demian

The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience. War and Peace

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. Book IV