To this day it is as if I can still hear the back of her head hit the carpet.
Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seethin...
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as...
There have been and still are geometricians and philosophers, and even some of the most distinguished, who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely the whole of existence, was only cr...
The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
Reality alone justifies everything.
Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy -- is that very most advantageous advantage which we have overlooked, which co...
Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts for a great and loving action, it will melt and mount upwards. There are s...
Of course, I hated my fellow clerks one and all, and I despised them all, yet at the same time I was, as it were, afraid of them. In fact, it happened at times that I thought more highly of them than...
Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.
Love it, regardless of logic as you say. It must be regardless of logic.
Los verdaderos grandes hombres deben de experimentar, a mi entender, una gran tristeza en este mundo
Listen, she said taking my hand. Tell me: you wouldn't have behaved like this, would you? You would not have abandoned a girl who had come to you of herself, you would not have thrown into her face a...
Libertatea deplina va veni atunci cand omului ii va fi absolut egal daca traieste sau daca nu traieste.
In order to achieve perfection, we must first of all fail to understand a great many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand very well.
I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.
How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!
Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: Lord, now lettest Thou Thy ser...
For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suic...