To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

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

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I.