Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

The temerity to believe in nothing.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.

Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.