... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

Most real relationships are involuntary.

In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

Being in love is an exhausting business.