When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.

What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.