What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.