#2,986

The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 477

#2,686

Love uses the vocabulary of sex to write a text unintelligible to sex alone.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,581

The modern writer forgets that only the allusion to the gestures of love captures its essence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 418

#2,564

Decadence makes many things lovable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 411

#2,389

Our own cross burdens us less than the one we cannot help our beloved to carry.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 386

#2,189

Nothing surpasses the beauty of loyal love, of the love that is not loyalty with love, but the loyalty of love itself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 356

#1,883

To love one’s neighbor is without doubt a commandment, but the gospel is the love that awaits us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,460

The two wings of intelligence are erudition and love.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 247

#1,407

Let us learn to accompany those we love in their errors, without becoming their accomplices.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 239

#1,368

To the happiness of those we love most we are allowed to contribute only a silent tenderness and an impotent compassion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,348

There is no truth which it is not licit to strangle if it would harm someone we love.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,238

Neither a revolutionary's eloquence, nor love letters, can be read by third parties without laughing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,232

The happiness of the being we love is the only earthly good that satisfies us beyond measure.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,164

Mutual disrespect quickly turns friendship or love between plebeian souls into a mere bilateral contract for rudeness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 205

#1,073

The most ardent passion does not deceive, if it recognizes the inadequacy of its object.
Love is not blind when it loves madly, but when it forgets that even the irreplaceable loved being is only a mysterious first fruits.
Love that does not believe it is justified is not betrayal, but propaedeutic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 190

#1,064

Every being lies there, shattered to pieces by its life, and there is no way for our love to pick up all the pieces.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 189

#804

Clergymen and journalists have smeared the term “love” with so much sentimentality that even its echo stinks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 144

#684

Only because He commanded us to love men do the modern clergy resign themselves to believing in the divinity of Jesus; whereas, in truth, it is only because we believe in the divinity of Jesus that we resign ourselves to loving men.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 125

#677

None of us finds it difficult to love the neighbor who seems inferior to us.
But to love someone we know is superior is another thing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 124

#592

Indifference to art is betrayed by the pompous solemnity of the homage often rendered it.
True love remains silent or mocks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 111