For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.