Well, what is that to me? I can't see her! she cried.
We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?
Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had crowded themselves together, paving the ground with stones so that nothing...
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [...] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with...
One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. People are not...
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.
Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself...
Faith is the force of life.
Christianity with its doctrine of humility of forgiveness of love is incompatible with the state with its haughtiness its violence its punishment its wars.
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
He was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.
We are conscious of the force of man's life, and we call it freedom
Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.