Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
Enough or not…it will have to do.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
Love those you hate you.
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.
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