To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.