In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

Be the sun and all will see you.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

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

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.