What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly.

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

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.