In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep..

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute ….

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man..

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty..

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter..

I am who I am and that's who I am.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners..

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays..

I shall laugh my bitter laugh..

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something..

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views..

The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle….

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe..

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only….

He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves ….

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant..

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry..

They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me..

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord..

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book..