Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.

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