Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.
Well, it's not a disaster, is it? Man, too, comes to his end, and here we are making a fuss about a clay pot!
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
We are assured that the world is becoming more and more united, is being formed into brotherly communion, by the shortening of distances, by the transmitting of thoughts through the air. Alas, do not...
We all have chance meetings with people, even with complete strangers, who interest us at first glance, suddenly, before a word is spoken.
Vorrei penetrare il suo segreto, vorrei che lei venisse da me e mi dicesse: Io ti amo, e se non è così, se questa follia non è pensabile, allora... allora che cosa desiderare? Forse so io stesso quel...
Very well, then there's an experiment, and the thing is proved; one cannot live and count each moment; say what you like, but one cannot.
Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a...
Una conciencia demasiado clarividente es (se lo aseguro a ustedes) una enfermedad, una verdadera enfermedad.
Um momento total de felicidade? Sim! E isto não é o bastante para inundar uma vida?
U svakom slučaju, ako čovjek od civilizacije nije postao krvožedniji, postao je sigurno ružnije, ogavnije krvožedan nego prije. Prije je u krvoproliću gledao pravednost i mirne je savjesti tamanio kog...
To whom is he to go if you are not together, mother and father?
Till the last moment they dress a man up in peacock's feathers, till the last moment they hope for the good and not the bad; and though they may have premonitions of the other side of the coin, for th...
Thou wouldst not enslave man by a miracle, and didst crave faith given freely, not based on miracle. Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has ove...
This is not it, this is not it! No, this is not it at all!
This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to as soon as possible.
There are strange friendships: two friends almost want to devour each other, and they spend their entire lives living that way, but meanwhile they cannot part.
There are some people who interest us immediately, at first glance, before a word is exchanged.
There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it's heavenly, but man cannot endure it...