In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.
Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.