The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
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.
I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.
Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
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.