There are in every man, at all times, two simultaneous tendencies, one toward God, the other toward Satan.
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
I think there can be few examples of a life as dilapidated as mine.
This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.
We have psychologized like the insane, who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it.
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