I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

Kings are the slaves of history.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?