“In love we often doubt what we most believe.”

“But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.”

“Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.”

“Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.”

“We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.”

“Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.”