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.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.