The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.