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1 " There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past (" en me retraçant ces détails, j'en suis à me demander s'ils sont réels, ou bien si je les ai rêvés" ). As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. "
2 " In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten years or more, the man of letters (restored to his loftiest dignity) can happily write out of pure love of writing. "
― Umberto Eco , The Name of the Rose
3 " The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think. "
― Salley Vickers , The Cleaner of Chartres
4 " These men are in prison: that is the Outsider’s verdict. They are quite contented in prison—caged animals who have never known freedom; but it is prison all the same. And the Outsider? He is in prison too: nearly every Outsider in this book has told us so in a different language; but he knows it. His desire is to escape. But a prison-break is not an easy matter; you must know all about your prison, otherwise you might spend years in tunnelling, like the Abbe in The Count of Monte Cristo, and only find yourself in the next cell. "
― Colin Wilson , The Outsider
