He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.