A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.