Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

I can, therefore I am.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

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