“A miracle has the right to impose conditions.”

“The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has alreadyaccomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.”

“Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.”

“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”

“What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”

“The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.”

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”