As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.