Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.

- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.

- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.

- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz