Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

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

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

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