In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.