When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.