She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.