What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.