Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.
...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.
Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
How good life is when one does something good and just!
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
...chance may do anything.
I am too young and I've loved you too much.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.
It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
Money is coined liberty.
Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.
The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
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