Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

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

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.