Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy; the Animals.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.

a man possessed with peace is always smiling