Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did not succeed in saying anything of it; his passion mastered her. She tried to calm him, to calm hers...
And where love ends, hate begins
When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.
I didn’t know you were going. What are you coming for? she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped the doorpost. And irrepressible delight and eagerness shone in her face. What am I c...
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper...there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people...but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can...
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.
My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider r...
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
The doctor arrived towards dinnertime and said, of course, that although recurring phenomena might well elicit apprehension, nonetheless there was, strictly speaking, no positive indication, yet since...
Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.
It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it
All the methods of appointing authorities that have been tried, divine right, and election, and heredity, and balloting, and assemblies and parliaments and senate—all have proved ineffectual. Everyone...