Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.