Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
“For after all, why do we go on fighting? If we die for democracy then we must be one of the democracies. Let the rest fight with us, if that is the case. But the most powerful of them, the only one...”
“Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot...”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
“Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart”