And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.