“She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.”

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”

“This time the struggle is for our freedom, this time the struggle is for our independence! Joy bangla!”

“She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.”

“She knew that life was but a long struggle against disorder, and that disorder was the inevitable winner.”

“Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

“There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”

“Disease was a perverse, a dissolute form of life.”

“Salvation lies in the soul experiencing its intrinsic joy.”