Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.