Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.