I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?