I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

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

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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

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

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.