"But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it."

"As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity."

"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

"Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul in its search for Good, the force that joins us to Good and joins us to the world through Good. Its existence is the unmistakable sign that we are spiritual creatures, attracted by excellence and made for the Good. It is a reflection of the warmth and light of the sun."

"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."