He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
How strange, extraordinary, and joyful it was to her to think that her son - the little son, whose tiny limbs had faintly stirred within her twenty years ago, for whose sake she had so often quarreled...
I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish t...
I must ask what it is you want of me?What can I want? All I can want is that you should not desert me, as you think of doing, she said, understanding all he had not uttered. But that I don't want; tha...
I realized that I had been lost, and how I had become lost. I had strayed not so much because my ideas had been incorrect as because I had lived foolishly. I realized that I had been blinded from the...
I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.
I'm not living, I'm waiting for a solution that goes on and on being put off.
If a man lives, then he believes in something. If he didn't believe that one must live for something, then he wouldn't live. If he doesn't see and doesn't understand the illusoriness of the finite, he...
If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of t...
If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!
If you feel that you are not free, look for the reason inside you.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
If you turn to a branch of those sciences that try to give a solution to the questions of life--to physiology, psychology, biology, sociology--there you will find an astounding poverty of thought, a v...
In affirming my belief in Christ's teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the Church's doctrine, which is usually called Christianity.
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...
It is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror!
It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.
It was one of those things that one knows but cannot even tell oneself - so dreadful and shameful it would be to be mistaken.
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