The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

Enough or not...it will have to do

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

I don’t count life as life without love

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.