Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.