"You have a picture of life within you, a faith, a challenge, and you were ready for deeds and sufferings and sacrifices, and then you became aware by degrees that the world asked no deeds and no sacrifices of you whatever, and that life is no poem of heroism with heroic parts to play and so on, but a comfortable room where people are quite content with eating and drinking, coffee and knitting, cards and wireless.
-Hire baitan bizitzaren irudi bat heukan, uste bat, eskakizun bat, egintzetarako, sofrimenduetarako eta oparietarako prest hengoen; eta orduan poliki poliki konturatu hintzen munduak hiri ez diala egintzarik eta oparirik edo antzerakorik eskatzen, bizitza ez dela epopeia heroiko bat, heroe ekintza eta guzti, baizik gela burges bat, non jan eta edanez, kafe eta xapinetan, tarot kartekin eta irrati-musikarekin pozik bizi daitekeen.