Ideas Have Significance For Him Only As

Many Of The Insights Of The Saint Stem From His Experience As A Sinner.

I Always Held My Flower In A Clenched Fist.

No One Is Truly Literate Who Cannot Read His Own Heart.

The Necessary Has Never Been Man's Top Priority. The Passionate Pursuit Of The Nonessential And The Extravagant Is One Of The Chief Traits Of Human Uniqueness. Unlike Other Forms Of Life, Man's Greatest Exertions Are Made In The Pursuit Not Of Necessities But Of Superfluities.

A Man's Soul Is Pierced As It Were With Holes, And As His Longings Flow Through Each They Are Transmuted Into Something Specific.