Quotes by writer

"To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures."

"He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound."

"Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience."

"When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth."

"Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches."

"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed."

"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."

"What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things."

"In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages."

"The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together."