Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

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.

There are as many loves as there are hearts.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.