Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

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.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.