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.

And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

If you want to be happy, be happy.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.