"Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit."
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."