We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.