We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. |
We are all special cases. |
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. |
We call first truths those we discover after all the others. |
We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity. |
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. |
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. |
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are |
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible |
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves. |
Well, the tragedy is over. The failure is complete. I turn my head and go away. I took my share in this fight for the impossible. |
What is a rebel? A man who says no |
What is a rebel? A man who says no |
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. |
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter. |