When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

you will always love, and you will always be loved

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.