If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you!

It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.

Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?

You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

There's no war that will end all wars.