“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.”

“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”

“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”

“He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.”

“A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”

“The present is short lived. Difficult to define it without disturbing the past and the future events.”

“On the day of Pentecost Christianity faced the world, a new religion, without a history, without a priesthood, without a college, without a people, and without a patron. She had only her two sacraments and her tongue of fire. The latter was her sole instrument of aggression.”

“She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.”

“Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.”

“Without a woman, there will be no hope in the near future.”