In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?