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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

You may be ignorant of His presence at the time, but that doesn't mean He doesn't exist. If you look, you will find that He was there all along. You can know that God exists.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.