To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.
... 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.
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
Money is coined liberty.
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.
Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
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.
There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
I am too young and I've loved you too much.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.
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