It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.