Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

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

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.