“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”

“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.”

“Her wrath is a devastating flood which no one can withstand.
A great watercourse, she abases those whom she despises.
The mistress, a hurin bird who lets no one escape.
Inana, a falcon preying on the gods.”

“But if a man shall hope in aught he does
To escape the eyes of god, he makes an error.”

“Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.”

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

“When a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy.”

“Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.”

“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self — in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”