12 quotes
The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.
The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1912)
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)
There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.
Le Mystère des saints Innocents [The Mystery of the Holy Innocents (1912)
Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)
It is impossible to write ancient history because we do not have enough sources, and impossible to write modern history because we have far too many.
Clio (1931)
I am so resplendent in my creation.
That in order really not to see me these poor people would have to be blind.
The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1912)
In my servant the ant, my tiny servant, who hoards greedily like a miser.
Who works like one unhappy and who has no break and who has no rest.
The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1912)
Faith is a loyal Wife.
Charity is a Mother.
An ardent mother, noble-hearted.
Or an older sister who is like a mother.
Hope is a little girl, nothing at all.
The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1912)
Towards this fine honor of a trade converged all the finest, all the most noble sentiments—dignity, pride. Never ask anything of anyone, they used to say. … In those days a workman did not know what it was to solicit. It is the bourgeoisie who, turning the workmen into bourgeois, have taught them to solicit.
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)