Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.