“A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?”

“He who does not know how to believe, should not know.”

“He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.”

“When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”

“Near me nothing but distances.”

“I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.”

“At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals a...”

“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”

“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”