Occupation: Writer Birth: October 15, 1814 Death: July 27, 1841
In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin..
When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience fall….
Happiness comes the way the wind blows..
What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only ….
I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom..
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace..
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others..
Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there..
I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with e….
No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an ev….
I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good..
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel..
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning..
I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate..
I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance….
If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much..
Women love only those whom they do not know!.
We almost always forgive those we understand..
What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple - without a divinity!.
my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.