All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

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.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."