I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

Each time of life has its own kind of love.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.