And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

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

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.