For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.
Precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the hearth knows how to find what is precious
Il m’aimait tout en me haïssant ; cet amour est de tous le plus fort...
[The Devil] My best feelings, gratitude, for example, are formally forbidden solely because of my social position.
Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating against the window-panes, and streaking their dull, dark surf...
Lepiej być nieszczęśliwym i wiedzieć, niż być szczęśliwym i żyć w nieświadomości.
In order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.
If she'd been lame or a hunchback I'd have probably fallen in love with her even more... Yes, it was a sort of spring fever.
Everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
The main thing is that I believe myself when I lie. The hardest thing in life is to live and not lie… and… and not to believe your own lies, yes, yes, that’s it precisely!
This life you cry up so much is what I wanted to extinguish by suicide, whereas my dream, my dream—oh, it has revealed to me a great, new, regenerated intensity of life!
Love it, regardless of logic as you say. It must be regardless of logic.
لقد عرفت واحدا من هؤلاء الذين لا يكفون عن العمل، ولم يكن من أبناء الشعب على كل حال، وكان رجلا مثقفا يقدر على فهم الظواهر العامة. إنه كان يحلم بالفراغ الكامل والبطالة التامة كل يوم تقريبا، ويجد في هذا...
But then, we have science, and with its help we shall discover Truth once more; then we shall accept it in full knowledge. Knowledge is of a higher order than feeling; awareness of life is of a higher...
يصعب على المرء أن يتخيل لماذا وكيف يصبح الإنسان عاشقاً؟
Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?
If we're to come to love a man, the man himself should stay hidden, because as soon as he shows his face--love vanishes.
Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I cou...
Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.
Braćo, ne bojte se grehova ljudskih, volite čoveka i u grehu njegovom, jer kad ko voli čoveka grešnog, to je već slika Božanske ljubavi i vrhunac je ljubavi na zemlji. Volite sve stvorenje Božje i cel...
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