Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

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.