“This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”

En último instante, toda mi vida durará un instante.
Voces (1943)

Part I : Ambiguity and Freedom
The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)
Context: In spite of so many stubborn lies, at every moment, at every opportunity, the truth comes to light, the truth of life and death, of my solitude and my bond with the world, of my freedom and my servitude, of the insignificance and the sovereign importance of each man and all men. There was Stalingrad and there was Buchenwald, and neither of the two wipes out the other. Since we do not succeed in fleeing it, let us therefore try to look the truth in the face. Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting [C'est dans la connaissance des conditions authentiques de notre vie qu'il nous faut puiser la force de vivre et des raisons d'agir].

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: Blood Promise

Upon completing his spacewalk and returning to the Gemini 4 capsule. "Composite Air-to-ground and Onboard Voice Tape Transcription of the GT-4 Mission (U)" http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/GT04_TEC.PDF, NASA, August 31, 1965, p. 3

Golden Years
Song lyrics, Station to Station (1976)