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.

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.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

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

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.