Where there is love, there is God also.

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.