The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal...
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe...
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.
His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another.
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.