The Wish To Pray Is A Prayer

Hell, Madame, Is To Love No Longer.

Rather Than The Obsession With Impurity, You'd Do Better To Fear The Nostalgia For Purity.

Optimism Has Always Seemed To Me The Cunning Alibi Of Egoists, Anxious To Cover Up Their State Of Chronic Self-satisfaction. They Are Optimists In Order To Avoid Pitying Other Men And Their Misfortune. ~~ Yet Pity Is A Vexed Question.

I Know The Compassion Of Others Is A Relief At First. I Don't Despise It. But It Can't Quench Pain, It Slips Through Your Soul As Through A Sieve. And When Our Suffering Has Been Dragged From One Pity To Another, As From One Mouth To Another, We Can No Longer Respect Or Love It.

It's A Fine Thing To Rise Above Pride, But You Must Have Pride In Order To Do So.