The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.