"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."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."