When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here