“I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life.” — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“My spirit welled up in its joy because I asked myself "why?" The dread key to all true knowledge is "why?” — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“He who once drunk of Nile water will forever yearn to be by the Nile again.” — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“Even were the time to come when there would be neither poor nor rich, yet there will always be wise and stupid, sly and… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“And what will be their fate?” he asked. “Forgive me master, but I am curious to know, so that my heart may prepare itself.”… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life.” — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
I have sought for something in this world beyond the pleasures both of virtue and of senses...I can assure you that at the core… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“I, SINUHE, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa, write this. I do not write it to the glory of the gods… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“Turn, O you years_roll again, you vanished years_sail, Ammon, from west to east across the heavens and bring again my youth! Not one word… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“Sinuhe, my friend, we have been born into strange times. Everything is melting – changing its shape – like clay on a potter’s wheel.… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
