The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?" Vronksy

It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it.

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.