With love one can live even without happiness. Even in sorrow life is sweet; life is sweet, however one lives.
Why had he happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very moment when his own brain was just conceiving … the very same ideas? And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the e...
What's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as...
Unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases, while to sacrifice, for example, five or six years of their ebulli...
To a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.
There are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.
The most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying…
Sometime.You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you...
One can’t hold one’s tongue when one has a feeling, a tangible feeling
It was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the spot and cannot even move one’s arms.
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. And
If [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God?
He seemed to be trying to find his way somewhere, but had forgotten where.
He drew out of his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel.
For the lawyers, who cared not about the moral aspect of the case, but only, so to speak, about its contemporary legal aspect.
For man seeks not so much God as the miraculous
Bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn’t it? An...
Am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? An...
A man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.
[to Jesus] You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you. You did not come down because, again, y...