The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.