The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.