Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you that it's not true and that it's blushing now just as I am blushing all over.
Outwardly it's the truth, but inwardly, a lie!
Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely usual people, and how can he present them to the reader so as to make them at least somewhat...
Người ta sẽ cười vào những xúc động của tôi, nhưng sẽ chẳng bao giờ có ai hiểu nổi tại sao tôi xúc động!
Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and consequently all her conclusions.
My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.
Man likes to make roads and to create, that is a fact beyond dispute. But why has he such a passionate love for destruction and chaos also?
Man is broad, too broad, indeed. I'd have him narrower.
Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.
Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and...
Life had stepped into the place of theory
Let life go hang, as long as these loved ones of ours are happy.
Kako možete znati što će značiti taj dodir jedne osobe s drugom u sudbini dodirnute osobe? Jer, tu je cijeli život i nebrojeno mnoštvo njegovih ogranaka skrivenih od naših pogleda.
It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering.
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions. However, I have the power to end my existence, although I d...
I remember once I came into his room alone, when no one was with him. It was a bright evening, the sun was setting and lit up the whole room with its slanting rays. He beckoned when he saw me, I went...
I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic.
He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.