To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.