I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good...
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
Don't steal sweet rolls.
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
The same question arose in every soul: For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?... p982
In infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated,is to say nothing at all. Those are all words with no meaning, for in the infinite is neither c...
Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when the two best virtues -- innocent joy and the boundles...
To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness.
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
This foolish smile he could not forgive himself.
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
Teach French and unteach sincerity.
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.