“The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.”

“The beautiful must be incongruous.”

“Thought involves a little charlatanism.”

“Hunger justifies the middle classes.”

“For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.”

“The present is always the best, even when its rough.”

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

“Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.”

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”

“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”

“Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.”

“For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.”

“The present is always the best, even when its rough.”