Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himse… - Marguerite Yourcenar

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and several beliefs could live in peace; but I was wrong to forget that in any combat between fanaticism and common sense the latter has rarely the upper hand.

Bardzo źle czułbym się w świecie bez książek, ale rzeczywistości w książkach nie ma, bo się w nich w całości nie mieści.