But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.

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.

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

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

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.