Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

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.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.