Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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?
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.
Every heart has its own skeletons.
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
How can one be well…when one suffers morally?
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Love those you hate you.
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it. – Vronksy (Anna Karenina)
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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