It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.