I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

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

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

With love one can live even without happiness.

Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.