There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

Because we can imagine, we are free.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.