All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.