The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.