The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

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.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.