Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Life is fragile and absurd.

True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

A holy spirit lives within you.

Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.