Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

• Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
• My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
• There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics I refer to the infinite.
• There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
• Life itself is a quotation.
• To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
• To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
• Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.