Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.