Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.