1. “A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.”
2. “Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.”
3. “We know well only what we are deprived of.”
4. “God does not answer our desperate questioning; he simply gives us himself.”
5. “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
6. “A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.”
7. “A man’s passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.”
8. “There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.”
9. “A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.”
10. “No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
11. “To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”
12. “Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.”
13. “If the flames inside you goes out the souls that are next to you will die of cold.”
14. “The grandeur of man lies in song not in thought.”
15. “The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the bind and deaf divinity.”
