When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.