The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

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

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

Paths are made by walking