I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

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.