« Unconditional love responds to one of the deepest nostalgic desires, not only of the child, but of every human being; on the other hand, being loved by virtue of its value, its merits, always leaves room for doubt; whether it is because I have displeased the person I wanted to love or for any other reason, I still live in continual fear that love will disappear. Moreover, a "deserved" love may generate the bitter feeling that one is not loved for oneself, but only because one pleases, in short that one is not loved at all but used. »

« For the most part, the essential problem of love is to be loved rather than to love, to be capable of love. Therefore, their problem is how to be loved, how to be kind. In search of this goal, they follow different paths. `...` In fact, what most people in our culture mean to be kind is essentially a mixture of popularity and sex appeal. »

« From birth to death, Monday to Monday, morning to evening - all activities are routine and pre-braded. How could a man caught in this routine net not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, who has received only this one chance to live, with hopes and disillusions, with sorrows and fears, with the nostalgic desire for love and the terror of nothingness and separation? »