When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.