Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

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.

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

Necessity is God's veil.