An unshared happiness is not happiness.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.

The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.