There is no doubt we do violence to ourselves nowadays, we crackers of the soul's kernel, we incarnate riddles, who are ever asking riddles, as though life were naught else than the cracking of a nut; and even thereby must we necessarily become day by day more and more worthy to be asked questions and worthy to ask them, even thereby do we perchance also become worthier to-live?
Guk orain geure burua bortxatzen dugu, ez dago zalantzarik, gu arimaren intxaurrauskailu, gu arazotzaile eta arazotu, bizitza intxaurrak haustea besterik izango ez balitz bezala; hain zuzen horregatik, derrigorrean, egunean egunean arazotuago bihurtu beharra daukagu oraindik, arazotzeko duinago, eta hain zuzen ere horregatik, agian baita duinago ere-bizi izateko?...