Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.