You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.